Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plan has been suggested for a memorial of Charles Eliot, in view of his great service to Boston in connection with the Metropolitan Park System. Revere Beach has been suggested as the most suitable site for the memorial, as it was through his means that the beautiful reservation there was constructed...
...civil engineering in which profession he was very successful and highly esteemed. In 1849 he went to New York to become the engineer of the New York and New Haven railroad and in 1854 he was elected vice-president of the road. He was the sanitary engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Health in New York City for many years...
...monument to his memory, which will last as long as the city of Boston, and which is the product of his own genius, is the Metropolitan Park System of Boston. He was influential in arousing interest in this undertaking in the beginning, and later the plans were in great part entrusted...
...rather slender financial resources, the students at Harvard be asked to give a year's subscription to the following periodicals: Life $4.50, Judge $4.25, Puck's Library $1.00, Munsey's $1.00, Godey's $1.00, Strand $1.00, Black Cat 50 cents, Harper's Weekly $3.45, Illustrated American $3.45, Metropolitan $1.00, Ladies' Home Journal $1.00, Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper $3.45, Scientific American...
...contract with the Metropolitan Park Commission has secured for Harvard College a reservation for scientific purposes in the top of Blue Hill. The meteorological work begun here in 1885 by Mr. H. E. Rotch and since then carried on at his expense, will be continued...