Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, showed an overflow crowd in Lowell Lecture Hall last night a glimpse of a future in which "all routine activities could be done by devices." Finding a role for education, he said, is a major challenge to a society with the capicity to provide the routine...
Although the Administration has recognized the problem and is planning a tenth House to relieve the pressure, no accomodations have been provided for the overflow during the transitional period before the tenth House is ready for occupation. The obvious solution is to permit more students to live off-campus...
...construct large sewers parallel to the banks of the Charles intercepting all the old local sewers that once flowed directly into the river. This ended the major source of pollution. But these same local sewers also carried storm water and during heavy storms the interceptors were made to overflow into the Charles, to avoid their backing up and clogging local systems. Essentially, this was the method used until this year...
...Metropolitan District Commission, the result of the merger of the MSD and some other area authorities, has almost completed a 20-year, $105 million project to eliminate pollution from Boston Harbor and the overflow pollution of the Charles River. The MDC has replaced the interceptors with huge new sewers which will prevent all sudden overflows into the river. Sewage will be carried to an underground chamber on Magazine Beach near B.U. Bridge. Here the stormwater will be retained and chlorinated and then discharged into the river. The rest of the sewage flow will continue through the Boston Main Drainage Tunnel...
...water river. In 1908, the Charles River Dam was built near the present site of the Museum of Science, and the eight-and-a-half mile long, 300 million gallon capacity Charles River Basin was created. The fresh water basin could have absorbed and treated "naturally" the storm water overflow sewage...