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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strongly implanted in them that it was not effaced by centuries of city life. They realized that truth was not to be attained by acquiring land and knowledge, but by contact and harmony with all things. One people regards nature as an obstacle, the other as a road to its desires. The western attitude leads a man to forget his own position in the scheme of the infinite and to rely only upon himself, with the result certain disaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIA'S NATURAL VIEWPOINT | 2/18/1913 | See Source »

...High Road," though dull in spots, yet gives us Mr. Sheldon at his best...

Author: By G. H., | Title: New Plays in Boston | 1/21/1913 | See Source »

...dredging out the river-bed for the Cambridge pier of the new Stadium bridge, the workmen have come upon an old corduroy road, which probably served as the first bridge across the river in this vicinity. The road is remarkably well preserved, and the timber beyond being thoroughly watersoaked is otherwise in first-class condition. The logs extend down into the ground to a depth of twenty feet below the present river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORK ON STADIUM BRIDGE | 1/14/1913 | See Source »

Standish Hall, the first of the Freshman dormitories, will be located immediately east of the West End Railway Company's Power House, facing the Charles River Road and the river. The formal entrance to the building will be from the Charles River Road through artistic iron gates, located in the centre of the fence which encloses the court. For the convenience of students another entrance has been provided, which is from a driveway extending from Mill street and approximately paralleling the Charles River Road, through the central portion of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORK ON STANDISH HALL | 12/16/1912 | See Source »

...with the introduction. While perhaps not explicitly, it was, in general, the idea of its builders that, in this sanctuary of brown oak and leathern upholstery, one undergraduate stranger might accost another and spend that enjoyable hour of chat of two travellers thrown together by the fortunes of the road during the wait for a train on a remote station platform. To a limited extent (a very limited extent) the Union has fulfilled this purpose. But bricks and mortar will not shut out the prevailing community atmosphere from a small precinct sacred to free-and-easy democracy, and, rightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Comment | 12/6/1912 | See Source »

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