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...forward who catches the ball tries to break away, but is usually tackled and the ball "held," that is, one or more players of the opposite side get their hands on it. Then comes the most distinctive feature of the game, the scrimmage. The eight forwards on each side lock arms over the ball, while the two halfbacks oppose each other shoulder to shoulder. An arch is thus formed and the ball tossed in. The players may then do one of three things, push straight ahead, "screw the scrum," or heel the ball out altogether. In either of the first...
About 12.30 o'clock Saturday morning four men, all of whom are probably members of the University broke into Phillips Brooks House through one of the rear windows, forced the lock of one of the doors in the interior of the building, and carried away with them the bronze memorial tablet to Bishop Brooks which was there on exhibition. They were discovered by the police immediately after they had left the building, and one of them, B. Joy '05, was arrested. The others escaped with the tablet, but were forced to drop it in a clump of bushed near...
There will be two coffer-dams and a navigation lock 350 feet long, with a drawbridge and sluices. On top of the dam a roadway will be constructed to replace the Craigie bridge, and a parkway of seven acres will be laid out. The dam will turn the estuary of the Charles river into a fresh water basin, maintaining a level two feet lower than mean high water...
...Commission have made the following calculations: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; filling, 400,000 cubic yards; concrete masonry, 41,000 cubic yards; piling, 490,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 1,100,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riprap, 10,000 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies...
...will be furnished with a navigation lock, 350 feet long, 40 feet wide and 13 feet in depth below mean low water level, and with a drawbridge and sluices. The lock will be on the Boston side the sluices on the Cambridge side. When completed, the dam will convert the tidal estuary of the Charles into a fresh water basin covering about 800 acres...