Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Plans for rapid transit between Boston and Cambridge are now being considered by the Cambridge city government. According to the present charter of the Boston Elevated Railway Co. an elevated structure is to be built from the West Boston bridge to Brattle square, by way of Main street, Putnam square and Mt. Auburn street. Work must begin within six months of the completion of the new Cambridge bridge. As such a structure on Mt. Auburn street would greatly affect the adjoining properties, it is probable that with the agreement of all parties concerned, the plan will be changed...
World Today--"Boston's Solution of the Rapid Transit Problem," by F. W. Coburn '91; "The New Country Life," by P. H. Boynton '98; "The Great River: The Mississippi Valley in War," by J. K. Hosmer '55; "The Evolution of the Strawberry," by W. H. Burke M.'99; "Standardizing Railroad Time," by H. D. Jones...
...hydraulics, will open on Saturday, June 13, and will continue until Saturday, August 29, covering in all a period of eleven weeks. Mr. D. L. Turner, who has conducted the school in previous years is unable to continue to do so owing to his work with the Rapid Transit Company in New York...
...Blake is a civil engineer and has been employed for the last year in building the new rapid transit tunnel in New York, where he has had an excellent opportunity to study such constructions thoroughly. The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...Professor 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...