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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race for the class crew championship will be rowed this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. There will then be a strong ebb tide and if the other conditions are favorable the time made should be very near the record. Three tugs have been chartered to follow the race. The University tug will be at Harvard Bridge at 4 o'clock. Only those who have signed in the blue-books will be allowed on this tug. One dollar fare will be charged. The 1901 tug will be at the Harvard Bridge at 4.30. All Seniors who want to watch the race...
...with a very high stroke, but the Weld, with a lead of one-eighth of a length, soon settled down to a long stroke, thirty two to the minute. The Newell was rowing about thirty-four. About three-quarters of a mile from the start, the boats came so near together that bow's car in the Weld boat struck the oar of stroke in the Newell. The foul did not hinder either boat materially however, and at the bridge the Newell led by one eighth of a length. For the rest of the race the Newell gained steadily...
...joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, gave a second and final hearing yesterday on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. At the first hearing a week ago, no opposition was offered, but yesterday members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and persons owning wharves on the river front objected to certain features of the bill. The principal speakers against the project were E. G. Prescott, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, J. F. Boyd of the Associated...
...scene of the second act of the play is laid on the North American coast in the early fall of the year 1001. The Indians see the Viking ship approaching. It draws near, and Leif, who with Tyrker, Sigurd and a crew of Vikings, has sailed from the village of Magnus Jarl in Norway to seek America, comes to the shore. At the invitation of Po-ko hokit, Leif and Tyrker go to see the Indian village...
...main feature, namely, to erect dam in the Charles River in the vicinity of Craigie Bridge is not new. In 1894, in a report made by a joint board consisting of the Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health, it was proposed to build a dam near Craigie Bridge. That the recommendation of the joint board were not then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection grew out of the proposal to pay for the dam by filling in the basin...