Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee on the erection of the Bowl brings up a number of arguments against the project of altering the structure. In order to have the 220-yard straight-away necessary to track equipment, a tunnel must be cut through the embankment of the Bowl at the excessive cost of from thirty to fifty thousand dollars. Not only is this objection raised, but it is maintained that the arrangement would create powerful air currents which would hinder the runners and that the other colleges would therefore refuse to compete on such a track. Other arrangements have been suggested, such as cutting...
...question of building a tunnel from the Boston Elevated power station through to the Yard for the purpose of carrying heat to the College buildings will be definitely decided before the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, January 13. The project was discussed at length before the board at its last meeting and every phase of the question gone over preparatory to its settlement...
...Board of Aldermen has referred the petition of the University to construct a tunnel from the Freshman dormitories to the Yard back to the Committee on Highways for the City of Cambridge. The committee will pass upon the petition again some time this week and it will probably come up before the Board of Aldermen for reconsideration next Tuesday evening...
...petition of the University to secure the right to construct a tunnel from the Freshman Dormitories to the Yard will be considered at a meeting of the Committee on Highways of the City of Cambridge this evening. The petition was brought before the committee once and passed but later reconsidered, and now comes up for its second discussion...
...steel bookstacks, which on the southern half alone will have a capacity of about one and three-quarters millions of books, are nearing completion. 'For heat, the building will be dependent on outside sources, doing away with the dangers of a furnace and boilers in the cellar. A concrete tunnel has been built from Sever around the front of the library to permit the introduction of steam pipes on the west side. By this means, temporary heating facilities will be installed for the winter so that operations on the interior of the edifice may progress uninterrupted by the cold weather...