Word: parkway
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bulletin for January 21 contains the usual account of College activities. There is an interesting article on Wadsworth House, one on the new Parkway, and two articles concerning the Charles River Dam. Various short notices on athletic events and subjects, numerous University notes of interest, and an editorial on the opening of the Germanic Museum comprise the rest of the issue...
...report of the Cambridge Board of Survey on the proposed boulevard from Quincy Square to the Charles River Parkway, to be formed by the widening and extension of DeWolf street, has been filed with the city clerk of Cambridge and will be presented to the Council at tonight's meeting...
...Cambridge Board of Survey has determined its recommendation as to the lines of the proposed boulevard from Quincy Square to the Parkway to be formed by the widening and extension of DeWolf street. The question came before the citizens of Cambridge early in 1902 as the result of a petition, signed by President Eliot, Charles F. Adams and others, asking for "a dignified approach to Harvard College." The Board of Survey held several hearings on the matter, at which both parties to the plan were heard...
...lines of the proposed boulevard as determined by the Board are changed considerably from those asked for in the petition. The present plan calls for an eighty foot street, curving slightly from Quincy Square almost to the Parkway. The city engineer prepared the accepted plan with a view to disturbing as few houses as possible. In this he was remarkably successful, and the lines as now designated should meet with more favor than the former ones, which were drawn through nearly every building on both sides of the street...
...will probably be materially affected by the amount of money which is subscribed by graduates and friends of Harvard, as the City Council is unwilling to increase the taxes, as might be necessary if the city were to raise money for the condemnation of the buildings on the proposed parkway route...