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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Graduate Manager Everard Thompson has started constructing a new gridiron on the ground opposite Yale Field which Yale has recently bought. It is supposed that a stadium will be built in this site, but this fall it will be used as an auxiliary field. Some of the practice of the regular squad may be held there. The regular gridiron on Yale Field has been returfed and graded with an eye to per-feet drainage, and there is talk of saving this field for the scheduled games and holding much of the preliminary practice on the new gridiron. Yale men believe...
Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, realizing that it must soon move from its crowded quarters in the heart of Boston, looked about for a new site and was much attracted by the Riverbank esplanade on the north side of the Back Bay Basin. No better location could be desired for a great institution like the Institute, and its buildings as planned would have made a noble frame for that side of the Embankment. But the trustees of Technology hesitated, knowing the determination that had been expressed by a few persons in Cambridge to persist until they succeeded...
Technology, therefore, ceased considering the Riverbank site; but the fact that Cambridge might have secured that institution, and thereby added directly to the taxable value of the land between the Riverbank and the Grand Junction Railroad, began to impress the intelligent business men of Cambridge. Nothing could be more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings...
...plans for the new Germanic. Museum have been completed by a German architect, and ground will be broken in the near future. The site for the building acquired by the corporation is at the corner of Divinity avenue and Kirkland street, nearly opposite Memorial Hall...
...library which has long been in a state of congestion. The new structure will be a two-story addition to the present building and will extend to the west toward Garden street, taking the place of the old library wing, which will be removed, and covering part of the site recently occupied by the Asa Gray House, which was removed some weeks ago. The addition will be of similar construction to the Kidder wing, the gift of N. T. Kidder '82, of Milton, which has been completed during the last two years, and will be made with special attention...