Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curio collectors will be wide awake during the next week or more because the Washington Elm on Garden Street will be cut down, if the action of the Cambridge park commissioners and Mayor Edward W. Quinn at a recent meeting is followed out. Although the tree will be carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska, chips, perhaps sawdust, will be available for the nervy collector. The tree has been pronounced dead by a tree specialist and its overhanging limbs a menace. The seal of the city...
Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming through Brighton may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue, about 200 yards form Gate No. 5. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston, they will be required to unload and turn at DeWolf Square on the Parkway, about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...
...receive the delegates in the Church of the New Jerusalem, corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets. At ten-thirty the academic procession will form there and proceed to Sanders Theatre where the exercises will be held at eleven. Those who take part in the program are: President Marion Edwards Park, of Bryn Mawr, a former dean of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson, of Smith College, which gave Miss Comstock to Radcliffe, President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, and Miss Comstock...
...Monday afternoon will also be run along the Charles. Coach Farrell's reason for making this change, it was learned from Manager W. E. Collins '24, was to prepare his runners for the intercollegiate cross-country run on November 26, which will be held over the level Van Cortlandt Park course in New York...
According to an order which Mayor Curley will present to the City Council next week, $34,000 from the income of the Parkman Fund will be devoted to improvements on Franklin Park. Of this amount all except $3,000 will, according to the mayor's proposal, be expended in bettering the golfing facilities at the Park. The specific items for which the money is needed include repairs to the Locker Building, seats, loam and sod for the fairways, and general repairs on buildings...