Word: sites
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of wrecking the two houses now standing on the site of the new CRIMSON building on Plympton street will begin today, and will be completed in about ten days. The lot will be ready for excavation within two weeks...
...Harvard Memorial Society has placed a tablet in the post of the Yard fence adjoining Wadsworth House, to indicate the site of the two earliest College buildings, the foundations of which were discovered in December, 1909, and February, 1910, in the course of the excavations in Massachusetts avenue for the Cambridge subway. For a few hours the stones were to be seen in their original places after having been covered for more than 275 years; then they disappeared therefrom forever, and one more link with the past was broken. But the exact position of the stones was measured and recorded...
...year ago there was some thought of utilizing the building as a hospital, but it was decided that the construction of the building did not warrant its use for this purpose and it was not deemed wise to tear down the entire house and erect a 'hospital' on the site, since there was some question as to whether the college could support a separate medical institution...
Work on the Yale Bowl has progressed rapidly since Commencement and visitors to the site cannot but be impressed by its size and conveniences. While it will not be absolutely finished for the Harvard game, it is confidently expected by the management that there will be no serious delays between now and November 21, and that the Harvard game can be played there. The playing field has been sodded and seeded and is in good shape and could be played upon by October 1 if necessary, but it is the intention not to have any games in the intention...
...very advantageous site has been leased in a most central location--the northwest corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and 44th street, opposite the Grand Central Terminal and north of the Biltmore Hotel. In the planning of the building two general ideas have governed,--the practicability of the building for the use to which it is destined and the compatibility of its appearance with the ideal of the organization which it is to house...