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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Monday the University and four oar crews will leave Boston by the 3.03 o'clock train four New London. The shella will be sent carlier, and directly after arriving at Red Top Monday afternoon both crews will go out on the river...
...work on the old part of the club house is practically completed, and the three squash courts on the top of the building are finished, as are also the twenty new bed rooms, which are one of the most important features of the new club. They are intended primarily for non-resident members, and are to be furnished by graduate classes. Each class will adopt one room as, in a sense, its own, placing its class number on the door and class photographs and other memorabilia in the interior. All the rooms have been already taken in this...
There will be two coffer-dams and a navigation lock 350 feet long, with a drawbridge and sluices. On top of the dam a roadway will be constructed to replace the Craigie bridge, and a parkway of seven acres will be laid out. The dam will turn the estuary of the Charles river into a fresh water basin, maintaining a level two feet lower than mean high water...
...Thayer Hall, and before it was finally placed under control an hour later had rendered unfit for occupancy every suite in the entry, including rooms 45 to 68, and had charred the connecting hallways and stairs. The fire, the cause of which is unknown, spread so rapidly to the top of the building that several men who were in their rooms at the time were forced to leave by ladders or rope fire escapes. The thick connecting brick wall prevented the fire from extending to the middle entry...
...building, four stories in height, stands to the south-west of the Infirmary on lower ground, and is connected with it by a closed semicircular passageway of masonry with an open colonnade on top. It is 80 feet long by 40 feet wide, and in general design is like the main building, but with no ornamentation. Like the Innrmary, it is built of red and black bricks with white limestone trimmings...