Word: piers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University swimming team will compete with Brown in a four-man relay race at the Ocean Pier Baths at Beachmont this evening at 8 o'clock. Each man will swim 40 yards. B. M. Fullerton '16 and J. A. Gilman '16 will enter the 100-yard handicap event. Another feature of the meet will be a relay race between McGill University and the Brookline Swimming Club. Reserved seats at $1 and 75 cents and admission tickets at 50 cents each are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce...
...dredging out the river-bed for the Cambridge pier of the new Stadium bridge, the workmen have come upon an old corduroy road, which probably served as the first bridge across the river in this vicinity. The road is remarkably well preserved, and the timber beyond being thoroughly watersoaked is otherwise in first-class condition. The logs extend down into the ground to a depth of twenty feet below the present river...
Excellent progress is being made on the new bridge. Half of the old structure has already been demolished and about three-quarters of the dredging for the foundations of the Cambridge Pier has been done. The work of driving the piles for the pier will be begun the middle of next week and will require about five days. Special machinery has been devised to break up the ice on the river and thus prevent any delay to the work...
...cupped the entire class will be gathered in front of Holworthy. A mighty band will lead the throng a rapid songful march and at 8.30 official cars leave Harvard square for Otis Wharf. At 9.15, the Griswold clears her dock for shores unknown, unseen. At Fort Andrew's pleasant pier unship in rank array! A short stroll down the wood-path then brings our travellers to the Field of Jubilee. Ball games, swimming, diving, blind-fold dory and obstacle races, tugs of war and deep-sea tilting, wrestling, rowing and a hundred and seventeen absolutely new sports will occupy...
President Lowell '77, A. S. Pier '95, of the Youth's Companion, R. C. Benchley '12, of Worcester, and T. S. Ross '12, of Hingham, will speak, and E. S. Martin '77, editor of "Life," New York, N. Y., will read a poem. Professor G. L. Kittredge '82, of the department of English, will preside as toastmaster. The University Glee Club Quartet will sing...