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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expense of the track team has decreased about $1000 in two years. The largest increase in minor sports during the two years has been in lacrosse, which has jumped from $782 to $2273. More men are playing lacrosse, there has been a professional coach, and more careful attention has been given to the players...
...shipping business is principally in the hands of the English, the Germans, and the Italians. The last have the largest and best equipped steamers and draw an enormous revenue from the immigrants brought from their overcrowded peninsula...
...subway more than half a million cubic yards of material have been excavated. In the concrete construction 200,000 cubic yards of cement, 350,000 tons of crushed stone, and 7,000 tons of steel have been used between the bridge and the Murray street yards. The largest number of men employed on the work at any one time was 4,000, the average force being about...
There are to be three stations in Cambridge: at Kendall, Central, and Harvard squares. The first of these will be the largest, with eight sets of stairs from the street to the tracks. All three stations will be free transfer points from surface cars. Except for a few hundred feet to the west of Harvard square, the subway will consist of two tubes 16 feet high and 25 feet broad, situated on different levels as in the case of the Washington street tunnel, the out bound track to be the higher...
...boarding problem in Cambridge. Memorial Hall has the best equipped plant obtainable and as a commons it has great possibilities, but its membership is not as great as might be expected from a University of this size. What must be determined is whether its present membership is the largest that is available; in other words, are the 2500 men in the Cambridge departments of the University who do not eat at either Memorial or Randall, definitely tied down to some other eating place, or are many of them "eating around." With a membership of 1000, excellent board could be served...