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...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...
...debate with Yale to be held in New Haven on March 30 was decided on last night and is as follows: "Resolvea, That it would be for the best interests of New York City to own its street railway system, the term street railway being taken to mean elevated, surface, and subway lines...
What then does equality among men mean? Certainly not that all men are born with equal powers. It is a well known fact that children in the same families and men in the same factories exhibit great diversity in scope of power. Democracy is not equality of all men, but equality of opportunity. No artificial restrictions should limit any man's power. Let the president hold his position through his inborn capacity, let the laborer be such through inability to rise. Freedom of opportunity is the ideal to be fought...
...Hirsch opened the debate for the negative. The question of the debate this evening, he said, is worded in the broadest possible terms. When we say intercollegiate football in America we do not mean intercollegiate football this year, nor last year, nor the year before; nor do we mean in any one locality more than another. We are not considering football at Harvard, nor at Princeton, nor at any special university or college. By intercollegiate football is meant an institution, a noble and blood-stirring institution, which takes its form in football contests between the colleges of America...
...annoying to be dunned for objects for which we do not intend to give anything. This is a thing which pursues us through life, and the more a man gives the more he is applied to. About the only people who are left alone are those who are notoriously mean...