Word: projected
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...raised among the undergraduates sufficient to provide for the carving in wood and stone of the fire-place at the Harvard end of the living room. The committee decided that this suggestion was appropriate and that the necessary sum of 86,000 should be raised to carry out the project...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce, through its president, W. H. Lincoln, and its secretary, E. G. Preston, has withdrawn its opposition to the bill for the construction of a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. It was feared that the project might meet with opposition from the War Department, but Secretary Root has written that he has no objection to offer. This removes all open opposition to the bill, and makes the prospect of its being passed appear very favorable. Up to the present time the joint commission, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee...
...joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, gave a second and final hearing yesterday on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. At the first hearing a week ago, no opposition was offered, but yesterday members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and persons owning wharves on the river front objected to certain features of the bill. The principal speakers against the project were E. G. Prescott, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, J. F. Boyd of the Associated...
...seems desirable at this time to publish an authentic statement of just what this project consists. Its main feature, namely, to erect dam in the Charles River in the vicinity of Craigie Bridge is not new. In 1894, in a report made by a joint board consisting of the Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health, it was proposed to build a dam near Craigie Bridge. That the recommendation of the joint board were not then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection...
...improvement the engineering plans and estimates which can be secured only by a special commission appointed for the purpose. Some people, however, may have the impression that a somewhat similar investigation was made in certain hearings held before the Harbor and Land Commission in 1894, but since the present project is so radically different from the one then considered, and since so many and important changes have taken place in the conditions which bear on the practicability of this scheme, it seems reasonable after the lapse of over six years to ask for this new commission...