Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Metropolitan Park Commissioners have decided to open the speedway around Soldiers Field to motors on the days of big games. Heretofore motors have been obliged to drive through North Harvard street and into Stadium street in order to park machines in the vicinity of the Stadium. The heavy motor traffic has been dangerous in the crowd of pedestrians, and there has always been much delay for occupants of motors in getting to and from the games...
Miss Alice Nielsen, one of the leading sopranos of the Metropolitan and Boston opera companies, will give a benefit concert under the auspices of the Harvard Edda Club in Jordan Hall, this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Nielsen will be assisted by the Pierian Sodality, the Swedish Singing Society Harmoni, and Mr. Henry Eichheim. Tickets at $1.50, $1, 75 cents, and 50 cents are on sale at Jordan Hall, and at the Co-operative Branch...
...bill authorizes the Metropolitan Park Commission or any town, city or other public body so authorized by the Commonwealth, to construct at any time hereafter drawless bridges across the Charles River connecting River street in Cambridge and Cambridge street in Brighton, and at any other points upon the river. The clearances must be at least twelve feet above the ordinary level of water in the basin over the main ship channel. The construction of piers and other obstructions to the flow of the river are to be subject to the approval of the Secretary...
...Pipe of Desire," with music by Mr. F. S. Converse '93 was presented last Friday evening at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. This is the first time that an opera with music by an American composer, has been performed by the Metropolitan Opera Company. From 1902 to 1905 Mr. Converse was an instructor in the Department of Music, and in 1905 was appointed assistant professor. In 1906 he gave up teaching to devote all his time to composing...
...gold medal by the Philadelphia Art Club, and received a silver medal from Leopold II of Belgium. He is an honorary member of the Cincinnati Art Club and of the Dickens Fellowship, and was curator for several years of the Department of Ancient and Modern Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City...