Word: low
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...width varying from 140 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pole foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. At the ends the height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean low water, about the present level of the street at the Cambridge end of Craigie bridge. On the lower side of the dam there will be a roadway 85 feet wide, and on the upper side a park or embankment of 6 3-4 acres. There will also be an esplanade...
...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 the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice for letting water out of the basin. There will be also outlets for marginal conduits, through which all sewage overflow, which now goes...
...result of the proposed improvements o the basin, plans for the improvement of the bridges below the University boathouse have been definitely arranged. The Longwood bridge and the low railroad bride beside it will both be raised under authority of an act passed this year by the last state legislature. A new and wider bridge will be built connecting Boylston street, Cambridge, with Harvard street, Allston, thus affording a better approach to Soldiers Field. The act authorizing this bridge was also passed by the legislature...
...candidates for the teams: T. G. Sesse '08, S. A. Elseman '07, G. B. Beach '07, C. H. Toll 1G., G. H. Conant 1G., V. T. Wellman '08, J. Weare '07, W. L. Stoddard '07, J. A. Richie '07, W. W. Reed '07, F. W. McAvoy '07, W. F. Low '07, R. E. Gish '07, W. L. Gifford '07, C. J. Stevens '06, L. P. Soule '06, M. B. Palmer '06, C. A. Bliss '08, H. A. Hirsh '05, C. B. Keeler '05, B. Madero '07, L. Sargent '05, C. E. Tilton '08, W. H. Barrow '08, C. T. Brodrick...
...brought the ball to Harvard's 10-yard line. From this point, Yale's powerful line attacks yielded shorter and shorter gains, and on Harvard's 1-yard line Yale lost the ball on down. Sperry dropped back of the goal line to punt but the pass was low and he barely got off the kick. Rockwell caught the ball at Harvard's 34-yard line but was instantly downed by Matthews with such force that he dropped the ball. Yale claimed interference with a fair catch and received a penalty of 15 yards. Yale then rushed the ball from...