Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Many students have in their possession books purchased for college courses, books which they will not again use. These are generally sold to second-hand dealers at ridiculously low prices. The suggestion I should like to make is that these books be collected by a student-committee, brought together, catalogued and kept in some accessible building, as Phillips Brooks House. This collection might be known as the Text-Book Loan Collection, and students would have the privilege of borrowing from it books to be used in connection with specific courses, and of retaining the same until...
...Price. In the first game of the season, with the St. James Fencers' Club, on February 19, the Freshmen were defeated six bouts to three, but since then they have been working hard under the instruction of Mr. Pianelli and have developed rapidly. The judges will be W. F. Low '07, A. Tyng sS., and Mr. Coburn, English High School...
...result of the attempt to improve the basin, the Longwood bridge and the low railroad bridge beside it has been raised under authority of an act passed by the legislature of 1904. A new and wider bridge will also 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...
...feet, the width varying from 340 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pile foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. 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...
...feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riff raff, 9, 700 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 also be outlets for marginal conduits, through which all sewage overflow, which...