Word: mdc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MDC has taken great pains to integrate the bridge with Harvard. It proposed to the Legislature that it be dedicated to Charles W. Eliot, 1853, president of the University between 1869 and 1909, and the Commission had its architects stress the Harvard motif throughout the design. The facing of the bridge will be done in expensive fancy brickwork and granite in imitation of the Houses; the four gates to the MDC garages under the abutments will be of wrought iron copied from the gates to the Yard; and on the face of each main pier will appear gothic capital...
...bridge will have three arches: two 78 feet wide and 15 feet high and a central one 100 feet wide and 17 feet high--the widest span on the Charles. Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 was consulted; the MDC doesn't want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will...
...MDC is very pleased with the Eliot Bridge. Many top officials are Harvard graduates who remember Eliot as "the man who made Harvard what it is today." And Charles Eliot '82, son of the President, was one of three landscape architects who stirred up public pressure for preservation of Boston's parks and river fronts which resulted in the creation of the Metropolitan District Commission...
Whether weather stays hot or cold, bathers had better keep, covered while in transit to the beaches, the MDC told the Boston press Sunday. In a ruling full of technicalities and escape clauses, the MDC ordered...
...wear trunks without tops at the beach. Theoretically, they must cover their chests while walking to the beach, but MDC will not enforce this rule unless bathers are so robust that ungainly folds o flab distort the midriff