Word: walls
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cambridge Park Commissian has been making plans to extend the park system, above the Harvard Bridge along the river as far as Brookline street, crossing the Albany tracks by an overhead bridge. The sea wall will be continued some 280 feet and then turned in at an angle to meet a beach which will be constructed as far as the tracks. About 150,000 cubic yards of filling will be required, most of which will be taken from the river bed. This will reduce to a great extent the large mud flats which are so prominent at low water...
...last race was between the first and second graded crews from each club. The second Weld had the wall, then the first Weld, first Newell and second Newell came in order. This gave the Newell the advantage of tide but the Weld had quieter water. At the start the first Newell jumped to the lead with the second Weld next and the first Weld last...
...admirable examples of picturesque architectural delineation. There is also an early water color drawing by Turner, a view of a gentleman's country-seat with wooded grounds, which is an unusually fine example of Turner's early manner. These drawings are now hung on the south wall of the large gallery together with others by various masters of the early English water color school which had been previously acquired. In addition to these, ten drawings by Ruskin are temporarily hung on the same wall. The drawings date from different epochs in Ruskin's life, and illustrate a wide range...
...thick layer of turf to render them air-tight. The entrance to these houses is an underground tunnel about thirty feet in length, which finally emerges through the floor of the one room. The furniture consists of a sleeping bench about six feet wide running the length of one wall, and a few racks for hanging clothes. The only other things that could be called furniture are two soapstone lamps fed by oil made of whale's blubber, which burn day and night. In summer the people generally abandon these huts and live in deerskin or canvas tents...
...print room are now exposed in the wall cases a series of prints from works of the Flemish School in the time of Rubens, which illustrate the transition from the primitive to the modern methods of engraving that was wrought under the influence of the great Flemish master. The engravers represented are: Suavius, Coet, Galle, Goltzius, Swanenburg, Stock, Matham, Muller, Soutman, Vorsterman, Pontius, and Goudt...