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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...proposed structure will occupy substantially the side of the present East Cambridge or Craigie bridge, which will be removed. The dam will be sufficiently high to exclude all salt water and to maintain in the basin above, a water level approximately 8 feet higher than mean low water. On top of the dam there will be a roadway to replace the Craigie bride, and a parkway of about 7 acres...
...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...
...Professor Francis Brown delivered the sermon, speaking from the text: "Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." He was followed by Bishop Lawrence, who spoke briefly on religion as part of the normal and natural life, neglect of which by the college man must mean irreparable loss. Indifference to religion by the college man is due, he said, not so much to doubts or to sin as to the habit of drifting...
...provided that the new bridge shall be suitable for all the purposes of ordinary travel, and for the use of surface cars of street railway companies; also that it shall be built with or without a draw at a height not exceeding twenty-six feet above mean high water mark. The approaches are to be laid out separately by the respective cities, with a width of not less than sixty feet throughout their whole extent, and must be finished at or before the completion of the bridge. One hundred and twenty thousand dollars is the limit of total expenditure, which...
...have been requested by the University Press definitely to advise them by Saturday how many copies of the Album to print. About 400 men have already made deposits. It is absolutely necessary that other men desiring the Album should deposit today or tomorrow. Further delay in the matter will mean that a large number of men will be unable to procure copies of the Album. SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMMITTEE...