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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...parkway of the Cambridge Park Commission which now extends for a short distance above the Boylston Street bridge is to be continued to a small landmark known as Gerry's Landing. To this point the Metropolitan Park Commission are to extend the Fresh Pond parkway and here they intend to build a bridge connecting that park system with Soldiers Field...
...proposed until last in the year, and the construction took so long that when the rink finally was completed, the majority of the students got little use out of it. The practical failure of last year's rink was due to several causes. In the first place, its small size restricted its use almost wholly to the members of the hockey team. In the second place, it was built on reclaimed land, which caused the water to run out and the ice to crack in consequence when the tide was low. This year arrangements must be made early...
...original donation of $25,000 would not cover entirely the cost of the building, and the New York Harvard club at once subscribed $2,500 more. By the last of December the building was well toward completion. On the morning of December 27 a fire started in a small work-house where workmen were heating creosote shingle-stain. An explosion followed, which set fire to the boat house and in a very short time the building had burned to the ground. The launch, Frank Thompson, which was lying near, was also destroyed...
...hall is the work-shop which is large enough to receive two eights at one time for repairs. On the other side of the main hall there is a tank about twenty feet wide and forty feet long. Behind the tank room is the furnace room and also a small room for drying clothes...
...locker-room for the University crews and next a large bath room. To the right of the main hall is a long room which will be used as a locker-room for the Newell crews. In front of the coaches' room, and the club looker-room there are small balconies from which the crews on the river, may be watched...