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...boat houses were in possession of the boat club, and that it would notify me of needed repairs. This is exemplified by the fact that the boat club holds the only keys to the main locks of the buildings, and I was last summer unable to let my workmen in, or get in to see to the work without having the janitor unlock the doors. He is employed by the club and not by the college...
During the past week workmen have been engaged in clearing away the debris of the boat-house balconies and in repairing the building. The upper balcony will not be replaced, and the doorways leading to it will be closed. The lower balcony has been rebuilt. Workmen have also been engaged in digging basins in the marsh beside the boat-house, into which, after the water from the river has been let in, the floats will be conveyed for security during the winter...
Plasterers and other workmen are engaged in rapidly fitting up the lower lecture room of the old law school building and making it ready for the use of college classes...
...Workmen have begun to cut down the trees on Holmes field in order to make room for the new athletic grounds...
...opened. The boat-house, Holmes and Jarvis will now be frequented daily by spectators and athletes. Jarvis is rapidly being put in condition for the ball season and for the spring meetings. The student already casts a jealous eye upon Holmes, in anticipation of the coming inroads of the workmen who are to build the new Physical Laboratory. The senior reminds himself with a melancholy satisfaction that the last term of his college course has begun. The joy of the under-classmen, at the presence of spring, is only tempered by dread of the approaching annuals...