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...recent years, as a boundary it has become more of a tradition than a reality. Thanks to the building of Fogg and the Faculty club, and the occupation of the Union by the Freshmen, Quincy Street is now a highway cleaving the Yard in two, with a stream of students constantly crossing from one side to another. This situation is growing more and more dangerous as automobile traffic down Quincy Street increases. It has become the regular route of the busses from Harvard Square to Somerville, and it is a thoroughfare for cross-town traffic...
...them showed the ingenuity of the local engineers confronted by King Charles. They could solve their traffic problems and divert traffic from Harvard Square by extending Memorial Drive along the Charles's left bank, but that was too easy. They might well have thrown a bridge across the stream from Gerry's Landing, but that, ah, that was too hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge on dry land! Did one but object that such a bridge would not span the river, the masters...
...Varsity team lost all interest in soccer during the M.I.T. game last Saturday when a stream of unmentionable expletives issued from the Engineers' forward line, notably from the Spanish center forward...
...culminate yearly in the Great Eastern States and National Telegraphic Championships staged by the Remington Gun Club at Lordship, Conn. This year for the first time skeeters in the Great Eastern States shoot competed for a 28½-in. silver cup donated by Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream...
Under his orders the Prefect of Seine-et-Oise called out troops. Some 200 gendarmes, backed by blue-clad Injanterie de-Marine, piled into fire boats and sailed up stream. At dawn they met the bargemen, brandishing boathooks. With a swish high pressure hoses were turned on, washed the boatmen off their decks and into the river while wives and children screamed imprecations through the portholes. The Seine was cleared. Twoscore of the ringleaders, most of them Belgian subjects, were arrested, charged with the extremely serious offense of Rebellion...