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...Widen Court St. in Boston...
Court Street, in Boston, will be widened to take care of the increase in traffic out of Boston. To aid in caring for the great number of vehicles that are expected to use this street, it was deemed necessary by the Planning Board to widen Cambridge Street for several blocks at the end of the Cambridge Bridge and thus create a new thoroughfare. In order to relieve the congestion at Harvard Square, it is planned to remove the street railway tracks from Broadway and repave it. Thus with the new cut-off through the Delta, vehicles would have a well...
With the new Chapel placed where Grays now is, Mr. du Fais would proceed to widen Holyoke street to a broad avenue, stretching from the Charles River Parkway up to the Chapel. This would necessitate the tearing down of Holyoke House, in all probability, and of the Pudding. Mr. due Fais does not believe, however, that this should stand in the way of the execution of his plan, as he would thus have convertd Holyoke street into the main avenue of approach to the University from Boston, flanked on either side by dormitories, and presenting a very attractive appearance...
Twelve years ago, three days before the intercollegiate track meet it was decided to widen the track so that five men could run in the 220-yard hurdles at the same time. As the track was large enough for only four men, a new strip had to be added before the meet. This was done under the supervision of Dennis Enwright, who was also in charge of this year's work. So expertly was the work done that the hurdler running on the new piece won the race...
...ideas for the administration of international affairs. President Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foundation, feels it unlikely that the award will produce any feasible recommendation other than a recommendation for some sort of " international association for common education." President Faunce, of Brown, thinks the studying done for the award will widen the American horizon, as does Chancellor Emeritus Jordan, of Leland Stanford. President Hopkins, of Dartmouth, believes the award may prove "the most helpful stimulus yet proposed for making articulate the desire of the American people for such increased spirit of neighborliness among the peoples of the world as will most...