Word: river
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Committee appointed by the legislature to consider the advisability of constructing a dam across the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge filed its report with the clerk of the General Court yesterday afternoon. The committee consisted of Mr. R. H. Dana '74, Mr. H. S. Pritchett, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Col. S. M. Mansfield, of the United States Engineering Corps. The committee recommends that a dam be built near the present site of the Craigie bridge and that a fresh-water basin be maintained at a permanent level. The report is most thorough and exhaustive...
There is good skating at Jamaica Pond, Hammond's, Charlesbank, Franklin Field, the Cambridge Skating Rink, on the Charles River at Riverside and Dedham, and on the Concord River at Wayland, Concord, and Bedford. Crystal Lake and Spy Pond are rather rough...
...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...
...Blake will deliver a lecture on "The Charles River Dam and Some of its Problems," under the auspices of the Engineering Society in the Lecture Room of Pierce Hall at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. Blake is a civil engineer, and has designed one of the plans which have been under consideration by the Dam Commission appointed by Governor Crane to present a report to the Legislature on the advisability of such a structure...
...second of a series of two on "Shakespeare's London." The greater part of the lecture will be devoted to the theatres of Shakespeare's time, together with a description of the "Bankside" which was a portion of the city along the southerly bank of the Thames river, where a great many of the actors lived, including Shakespeare himself. Professor Baker has views of this section and of all the old theatres, which will be used to illustrate the lecture. The lecture is open to the public...