Word: river
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...torn down, the dormitories and club houses left, with plenty of open space around them, where new and less expensive dormitories can be built, so that the Yard and the Mt. Auburn street district can be fused into one large yard with wide lawns stretching down to the river. This would make one of the largest college grounds in the country, extending from Harvard square to the Union, and from Cambridge street to the river...
...trust syndicate, known as The Harvard Riverside Associates, which has raised money in Boston and New York, has from time to time gained control of property in Cambridge between Massachusetts avenue and the river, on the north and south, and DeWolf and Boylston streets, on the east and west, until it has now substantially all this section...
...warm weather during the past week has favored the work of the University rowing squad, which on last Tuesday was able to go out on the river for the first time this year. Since then three crews have been sent out each day in barges, and, although somewhat hampered by the ice, practice in short stretches has been obtained. For the last two days Coach Wray has followed the crews on the river. As yet no definite graded crews have been made, but it is hoped that if the weather continues warm it will be possible to use the shells...
Yesterday afternoon the river in front of the University boathouse was for the first time sufficiently clear of ice to allow the eight-oar shells to go out. Accordingly, three trial-eights were sent out for a few short stretches in front of the boathouse. No coaches followed the crews...
...coffer-dams and a navigation lock 350 feet long, with a drawbridge and sluices. On top of the dam a roadway will be constructed to replace the Craigie bridge, and a parkway of seven acres will be laid out. The dam will turn the estuary of the Charles river into a fresh water basin, maintaining a level two feet lower than mean high water...