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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committees on Metropolitan Affairs and Harbors and Public Lands in joint session, voted yesterday morning to report the bill appointing a special commission to investigate and report upon the advisability of a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. The report is practically the same as the original petition presented to the committees March 29, the only change being that Governor Crane is to appoint the commissioners. The appointments will be made as soon as possible, and a report presented to the General Court early...
...pottery vessel, probably between four and five hundred years old, has just been presented to the Peabody Museum by Clarence B. Moore '73, of Philadelphia, a man prominent in archaeological research. The vessel, which is carefully modelled and chased, was found in an aboriginal cemetery near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Under it was a skull, with the tip of the chin just projecting through a break in the vessel. The skull, showing the receding forehead of the North American Indian, is included in the gift...
...mile relay was very close for the first mile, but after that was never in doubt. Drumheller of U. of P. set the pace in the first relay, but Behr passed him near the finish and came in five yards ahead. Klahr, of U. of P., quickly made up this distance, and beat out Applegate by two yards. Swan, however, came in first on the third relay, and gave Boynton a short lead, which he increased to about ten yards at the finish. Columbia came in second and Pennsylvania third. Time by half-miles...
There will be a meeting of all the Catholic students in the University at 7.30 this evening in the Parochial School Hall on Mt. Auburn Street, near Bow Street. Rev. John Farrell will be present at the meeting as spiritual director...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce, through its president, W. H. Lincoln, and its secretary, E. G. Preston, has withdrawn its opposition to the bill for the construction of a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. It was feared that the project might meet with opposition from the War Department, but Secretary Root has written that he has no objection to offer. This removes all open opposition to the bill, and makes the prospect of its being passed appear very favorable. Up to the present time the joint commission, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee...