Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will have an easy work-out today in order to rest up for the practice meet with Technology, which will be held at Belmont tomorrow at 12 o'clock. Yesterday Coach Shrubb picked out a course over the very rough and swampy ground along the banks of the Charles River, and the entire afternoon's practice was spent in perfecting the team's ability to cope with the difficulties of such a course. The team has shown up in excellent form during the past few days and the prospects for tomorrow's meet are correspondingly bright...
...handsome and capacious new buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, extending from Massachusetts avenue in Cambridgeport along the Charles River Basin, half way to Kendall square, are now structurally complete, except for the great central dome, and the front of the Library. The work has been in progress for two years and there remains now to be done only some interior work on the main buildings, and the erection of the Mining Building. This though now just started, will be finished with the rest, and be ready for occupancy next September. The Pratt School of Naval Architecture alone will...
...main Institute buildings are arranged in a great quadrangle, open toward the river, the portico of the Library, surmounted by the dome, occupying the central position. They are made of reinforced concrete, and are absolutely fireproof, the floors being stone, and the stairs iron. The total cost of their construction has been estimated at $10,000,000, and the lot on which they are built contains fifty acres. This includes the new athletic fields, which are already in use, and boast one of the best tracks in the country...
...Unless at least 300 signify their intention of taking the trip, the special round-trip rate of $7.75 cannot be secured. Under the provisional plan, a special train for members of the University will leave the South Station on Friday, November 5 at 6 o'clock. At Fall River the boat will be taken for New York, arriving about 7 o'clock in the morning. Any train to Princeton may be taken from the Pennsylvania Station in New York, and on the return any train from Princeton may be taken which will reach New York in time to take...
...poem "The Yards at Dawn," by Mr. Nelson, presents a characteristic sketch of Cambridge, the Cambridge we curse near by and yearn for from a distance: the Cambridge swathed in river mists...