Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Postmaster of Boston has recently made a careful inquiry into the needs of the postal service in the neighborhood of the College and as a result of that inquiry has decided upon certain improvements which will go into effect at once. Hereafter the Yard will have six deliveries a day, starting from the local Post Office at the following hours: 7.30 A. M., 9 A. M., 11 A. M., 1.30 P. M., 3 P. M., and 5 P. M. The additional trip, starting at 9 A. M., brings a part of the early morning mail that hitherto has been delayed...
Another improvement will be made by providing a supplementary evening collection from boxes in the neighborhood of the College. The effect of this change will be to postpone from one to two hours the collection hitherto made from the same boxes between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening, or at about those hours. This collection will be facilitated by holding until 9.55 P. M. the car that has in the past left Harvard square shortly after 9.30 P. M. The boxes to have the advantage of this improvement are located as follows: Post Office; Massachusetts avenue from Harvard...
...addition in the endowment for instruction a sum of $500, 000 will be needed in order to build an administrative building and to control two other school buildings, one of them a "model" school and the other a "neighborhood" School. The administrative building would contain besides the general offices of the department a library, a museum, an assembly hall, lecture rooms and laboratories. The "model" school, comprising all the grades from the kindergarten through the high school, would be both in the arrangement of the building and in teaching force, programme of studies and equipment a model for other schools...
...neighborhood of, the shrine is very interesting, containing as it does the famous theatre of Epidaurus. The temple itself is one of the most perfect examples of its period now standing. A detailed restoration has been worked out by two Frenchmen, who have worked both from the ruins themselves and from the many references to the shrine in the writings of Pausanias and others...
...Athletic Committee, at a meeting held on Friday evening, gave its approval to the following matters: the formation of a swimming club, the contests for this year to be limited to the immediate neighborhood; the baseball schedule for this spring; the appointment of F. L. Higginson '00 as coach of the crew and of J. W. Farley '99 as coach of the football team; the holding of a fencing contest with West Point sometime this month. The Committee to provide for the conference with Yale decided to appoint a committee to represent Harvard...