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...Charles River Basin Commission has advertised for bids on its contract for the dam which is to turn the Charles river into a freshwater basin unaffected by the tides. The dam will be built on the present site of Craigie bridge, and its total length will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 140 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pole foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. At the ends the height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean...
...summer, and preparations are now being made for packing and transferring it to Cambridge. The mirrors will be sent first for experimental purposes previous to setting up the whole instrument. An open space in the eastern part of the Observatory grounds near Bond street has been chosen as the site for the telescope. On account of its great height, about 27 feet in focal length, no dome will be erected...
Next year the Society will probably place a commemoration stone on the site of the first Stoughton Hall, in the quadrangle between Massachusetts and Harvard, and a bronze tablet on Holden Chapel...
...final plans of Emerson Hall, which were prepared by Mr. Guy Lowell '92, were approved Monday by the Corporation, and the contract for its construction will be let within a few days. The building will be erected on the site occupied in part by Professor Shaler's house, which is now being moved to a position between its present location and President Eliot's residence, and will form a quadrangle with Sever and Robinson Halls. It will be 143 feet long by 73 1-2 feet wide, three stories high, and will cost with furnishings about $200,000. The general...
After the bear-baiting resorts had furnished the site and circular form of the theatres, the interior was suggested by the inn-yards of that day, in which plays were often given. First came the Rose Theatre, then the Globe, and the Hope. The Fortune was built for the Lord Admiral's company of players, and the contract states that is should be constructed like the Globe. The stage in Sanders is based largely on the plans for the Fortune...