Word: subways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Board of Survey has already reported favorably on the route of the subways as outlined above, but legislative action will be necessary before the plan can be put into effect. The legislation last year provided for a four-track subway from Harvard square under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge bridge, but the Railroad Company declined to build this system because prospective travel was not sufficient to warrant such an expense. Under the new plan the company will build the Massachusetts avenue subway as soon as legislative sanction is obtained, but it may postpone building the Cambridge...
...which separate assignments of seats will be made by lot. The price of seats is one dollar each. A spread, not open to ladies will be served in Sanders Theatre from 11.15 to 1.15 o'clock. The Boston Elevated road has agreed to run extra cars from the subway to the hall, and from the hall to the nearest point to the Stadium...
...Auburn street would greatly affect the adjoining properties, it is probable that with the agreement of all parties concerned, the plan will be changed. W. A. Bancroft '78, president of the Elevated Co., has offered a plan which provides for an elevated line to Dana hill, and a subway from there to Harvard square, passing under private property and Massachusetts avenue. Since Dana hill offers a favorable opportunity for beginning the subway it is very likely that a line similar to this will be constructed, although the city has not yet given a location in Harvard square to the company...
...Joseph Johnson, Jr., will speak at 8 o'clock this evening in the Fogg Lecture Room under the auspices of the Political Club, on "Political Conditions in New York City and the Subway Tavern." Seats will be reserved for members of the University until 7.50 o'clock, when the public will be admitted...
...Johnson is president of the Subway Tavern Company. He was obtained for the meeting tonight by the College Graduates' Political Association an organization which is working in conjunction with the Political Club in trying to get college men who are going to live in New York, to enter politics. This association has also made it possible for the Political Club to get Hon. Seth Low, LL.D., exmayor of Greater New York, and formerly president of Columbia University, to speak at Harvard in the Fogg Lecture Room on Monday, February 27, on "A College Man's Influence in Politics...