Word: subways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Arrangements have been made for five other addresses to be given in the Living Room of the Union as follows: On Tuesday, March 1, Major General W. A. Bancroft '78, will give an illustrated lecture on, "The Boston Elevated Railway Company's System,--Surface, Subway, and Elevated, and its Authorized Extensions." On Tuesday, March 8, Rev. Jesse H. Jones '56, will lecture on "Wendell Phillips;" and on Friday March 25, Mr. G. Riddle '74, will read "Enoch Arden." On dates in April to be announced later, the Hon. J. J. Myers '69, of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
From the minute bandmaster George started his cohorts from the Union on Saturday morning until the last subway car deposited its load at Harvard square that night some three hundred and fifty Seniors spent the time at the most enjoyable field day ever held by a class in the University. After seeing Boston from the seats of six of the Elevated's finest and a voyage over the turbulent Atlantic under the care of that expert pilot and store-keeper Captain Dixon, the picnic party reached the Island only a little after the time scheduled in the CRIMSON...
...Edmund M. Blake '99 will give a lecture under the auspices of the Engineering Society this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Methods of Supporting Streets in Subway Construction...
...Howard A. Carson will speak in the Pierce Lecture Room at 8 o'clock this evening, under the auspices of the Engineering Society, on "The East Boston Tunnel." Mr. Carson was the engineer in charge of the construction of the Boston subway and is now chief engineer of the work on the East Boston tunnel. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views and will be open to the public...
...Johnson, are too technical to be quite appreciated by the reader not scientifically well versed, though doubtless to one familiar with the subjects dealt with they are entertaining and enlightening. Of the other articles in the number, "The Cambridge Bridge," by J. E. Chency '67 and "The Rapid Transit Subway in New York," by E. M. Blake '99, which are reprinted from lectures before the Engineering Society, are written in a clear and interesting style. Several excellent cuts, among which are views of the new Cambridge bridge as it will look when completed and of the entrance to the deep...