Word: subways
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...construction of the Cambridge subway, which began a year ago last summer, has progressed very rapidly. At present there are only two portions of the work that are not completed. One of these sections is in front of Hampden Hall, which will be finished some time this week, and the other is a short section between the Post Office and the Co-operative Society's store, where work has been delayed on account of the large water main, which passes through the Square at that point...
...society has been obliged to open temporary quarters for its furniture department in the Post Office Building, Harvard square, as the subway construction of the Boston Elevated Railway is underneath the Lyceum Building and has deprived the society of the use of its basement during the fall rush...
...Athletic Association is now undertaking the reclamation of four acres of waste land son Soldiers Field lying west of the Freshman baseball diamond. Through the courtesy of the Hugh Nawn Construction Co. the dirt which is removed from the subway excavation is being spread out on the marshes of the land which is being reclaimed. About 2000 court loads have already been put down...
...process of turning the waists land into fields salable for athletic purposes is very slow. In order to get grass to grow it has been found necessary to lay the subway dirt underneath the ground that is already there. This, however, has become so salty on account of the marsh that even after it is built up, it will have to lie fallow for a year or two to allow the salt to wash out. It will then be seeded and when the grass has taken firm root the field will be ready...
...lamentably true, but it should be remembered that one of the Dean's hardest problems every year is to get certain thin-chested, self-supporting Freshmen to eat enough, a task which this article may make all the harder. There are also two pleasantly written descriptions of the new subway and of the new Bussey Institution, which will interest those who happen not to have heard the facts before. And finally, there are a humorous defense of the chess club as a training school in "the manly art of (mental) self-defense," and an excellent receipt for making successful debating...