Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What we found proved to be a long, broad tunnel. It was well preserved, and we had little difficulty in making our way along it. We proceeded with caution, two peons going ahead to make sure there were no pitfalls; and in about half an hour of walking we came to the end. Digging our way out, we reached the upper air and looked about us in entirely new surroundings. The place where we had come out was nothing less than Machu Picchu, the old capital city which Bingham discovered, the Hub of the Inca universe. You will remember from...
Along the edge of the tunnel floor a footpath was worn, evidently dating to an early age. Later, but also much worn, were some curious grooves in the centre of the floor, running parallel in two pairs, from one end to the other. The floor was of solid rock, and these grooves had been hollowed with care. It was also observed that the tunnel sloped slightly in the direction of the city; and Senor Alvarotez has evolved this remarkable plausible hypothesis. When the tunnel was in use, there had been two cars of some sort, on wheels, one on each...
...quite evident that the tunnel had seen much use at one period of the university's existence. In fact, we learn from obscure references in the records that the lure of the city was once considered a grave problem by the Circle of the Elders. As far as we can make out they took no action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected...
...student, we eagerly set forth today for a game of a uash in the courts so munificently provided for that purpose. We found the door of the Linden Street mecca locked and barred. We then requested the janitor of Randolph to allow us to enter by the tunnel. He informed us sympathetically that the key had been peremptorily se uestered by one Greer, Comptroller of Athletics. We next trundled down to the freshman courts, in the hope that their physic use were still being improved without reference to acts of the Massachusetts legislature, and that there, in the very citadel...
This project is now under construction after many years of planning and will be the largest and most important highway tunnel in the world. Mr. Holland, as chief engineer and designer of this tunnel, and as the foremost authority on tunnels in this country is eminently fitted to talk on this subject. The meeting is open to members of the University...