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...game, in spite of the fact that we have grown to accept dust as the welcome alternative for rain and mud. That familiarity has dulled contempt, is no reason why climate-harassed throats should be further insulted by the steady cloud of dust and filth that rises from the pavement of that street, and from the now unmentionable bridge. The Athletic Association certainly owes the civic powers a considerable debt for police protection and supervision on the field; it is only a fair suggestion that it return the compliment by a nominal daily investment in the effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMNOLENCE. | 5/2/1912 | See Source »

...Traffic and transportation. (a) Width of streets; (b) nature of pavement; (c) nature of traffic, including number of street cars passing through Harvard square per day; (d) public utilities under and over streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FULFILLMENT OF OUR HOPES | 4/12/1912 | See Source »

Stewart Douglas Robinson '10, of New York City, was killed early Sunday morning by a fall from a sixth-story window in Hampden Hall to the cement pavement below. He had been sleeping alone in the bedroom and how he reached the window is unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obituary | 2/23/1909 | See Source »

...bachelor's degree. But between ourselves in the Intercollegiate Civic League, what, pray, is there about our college training, our four years of fraternity life, athletics, and electives to enable us to guess within gun shot of the amount necessary to run a board of health: whether asphalt pavement is an inch or a foot thick; whether a tenement house department is spending too little or too much money; whether a city budget should be $143,000,000 or $100,000,000; or just where economy is possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVIC LEAGUE ARTICLE | 1/18/1908 | See Source »

Alpheus Hyatt, S.B., Assistant in Invertebrate Palaeontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died suddenly last night, probably of apoplexy. He was standing in Harvard square about half-past seven, evidently waiting for a car, when without any warning, he sank to the pavement, and died a few minutes later. Dr. Hildreth was summoned, but arrived too late to render any assistance. The body was removed to the home of the deceased at 19 Francis avenue. Mr. Hyatt has not been known to have been in ill health recently. His age was sixty-three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 1/16/1902 | See Source »

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