Word: river
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Within the past year many additions have been made to Soldiers Field, among which are the Marshall Newell gate, the lodge, and the fence which extends along North Harvard street. These changes and the broad speedway which the Metropolitan Park Commission has built along the river, have added much to the appearance of the field, which today has a far different aspect than it had two years...
...thirty acres on Soldiers Field for athletic purposes. Since the Park Commission has constructed a dike along the water front, which shuts off the tide from the Long fellow meadow, fifteen additional acres have become available. All the important branches of athletics will soon be transferred across the Charles River to the one big field which now is unequalled in this country...
...University boat house has been made possible and is now in process of construction. The Newell Boat Club and the University crews will use it. The location of the building is a short distance above the Boylston Street bridge on the Brighton side of the river. The foundations have been in for some time and the framework is now almost entirely in place. Unfortunately the work has been delayed by the slowness in securing material, and the building can not be completed by the first of February as was hoped, but will be ready for use on March...
...quarter to four the team boarded their special car at the car-barn on Boylston street. A crowd of about four hundred men had gathered and cheered lustily as the car started off, the cheering being led by R. W. Bliss '00. The team went by the Fall River line to New York, whence they will leave this morning for Philadelphia...
...Cape. With the emancipation of the slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into...