Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Committee on Metropolitan affairs held a hearing at the State House yesterday, to consider the bill providing for the rebuilding of the Boylston street bridge. Senator D. W. Lane '94 presided. Major H. L. Higginson h.'82 spoke in behalf of the bill, pointing out the inadequacy and danger of the present bridge on the days of the big games. B. G. Waters '94 and Mr. de las Casas, chairman of the Metropolitan Park Commission also spoke in favor of the bill...
...Heinrich Conried of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, will give a German play here on March 16. under the auspices of the German Club. The play is entitled "Die Jugend-Freunde," and is by Ludwig Fulda...
...efficient and compact body, with a sufficient variety of opinion, with added effectiveness for executive work and the working out of sound policies. The schools should not be representative of sectional interests, but should have as their unit, areas larger than Cambridge or than Boston, such as the metropolitan district, which forms a unit for the park and sewerage system, and should be unified for other purposes. The members of the board should be experts, as is the case in St. Louis, where the board includes the superintendents of instruction, buildings and supplies. They should be appointed and not elected...
...Metropolitan--"Lost," by E. Emerson...
...Franklin Field, Franklin Park, Boston, and at the enclosed rink of the Cambridge Skating Club, corner Mr. Auburn and Willard streets, Cambridge. Most of the ponds in the parks and play-grounds of the Boston Park System have been cleared and the ice is in fair condition. The Metropolitan Park Commission has just begun to clear off the ponds in the Boston Public Gardens and Common...