Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard party of the intercollegiate geological excursion to Westfield, Mass., will take the 4.19 train on the Boston and Albany railroad, at Trinity Place (Back Bay), this afternoon. Mileage tickets will be provided. The party will reach Westfield at 7.07, and stop at the Hotel Bismarck. The return will be Saturday evening, on the train due in Boston...
...communicating with the secretary, can be introduced at the Newton Golf Club, about 35 minutes from Harvard square. The fee is $1 a week or $4 till Nov. 15. The course is reached by taking a Newton car to Newton, where a carriage can be obtained at the railroad station about 200 yards beyond the car line. It is about a ten-minute drive to the links...
...Professor Shaler's home in Martha's Vineyard, was located this year at Squam Lake, N. H. There were eighty-seven men, mostly under-graduates, in the camp, and the work was laid out and directed by Mr. D. L. Turner and six assistants. The work--Plane, Geodetic and Railroad Surveying -- counted a course and a half for each man and lasted nine weeks. The camp will be held at the same place next summer, and an attempt will be made to introduce several kinds of recreation...
...Harvard-Yale races will be rowed Thursday, June 27. The Freshman crews will row upstream at 4 o'clock from the railroad bridge to the Navy Yard, and the University four-oars, immediately after from the Navy Yard to the training quarters. High tide is at 6.10 and the University race will be rowed down stream...
...model was begun in August, 1899, under the direction of G. C. Curtis, the sculptor. The work is remarkable for the accuracy of its details, which include some 250 miles of railroad, modelled to scale, 300 miles of stream; 200,000 trees, each separate; 26,000 blocks, correctly located according to maps; 2,750 miles of streets and 157,000 buildings...