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...importance to the University, has been of long duration. The project of a tidal basin in the Back Bay was first suggested in 1859, but not until the establishment of the permanent Metropolitan Park Commission in 1893 was it realized that the construction of a river park and embankment along the Charles River was essential to the scheme of public parks. A committee reported in favor of a dam, but nothing further was done. For the past three years, however, the project has been under serious consideration, and during the winter of 1903 Governor Bates appointed a committee, consisting...
...accordance with the vote of the Corporation for improvements to reduce the danger from fire in the Yard, work was begun, Tuesday morning, on a six-inch water main to run from the Cambridge Water Company's main on Cambridge street to that on Massachusetts avenue, along the line of Stoughton, Hollis, Matthews, and Wadsworth House. Yesterday the piping was laid as, far as Hollis, and a hydrant was placed opposite Holden Chapel. The main will probably be finished by Saturday, and hydrants placed opposite Harvard Hall and in front of Matthews...
...this end it has been decided to make extensive additions to the apparatus at present available, and to institute a number of other improvements, the total cost of which will be over two thousand dollars. A six-inch water main will be run from Kirkland street to Massachusetts avenue, along the line of Stoughton, Hollis, and Matthews. To this will be attached three hydrants, the first of which will be placed opposite Holden Chapel, the second opposite Harvard Hall, and the third in front of Matthews. Two hose carts, each carrying 300 feet of two and one-half inch fire...
...accordingly the only object of an early drawing has been defeated." The facts are that most of the assignments were made to these very men who live off the Yard, and 17 of these assignments were made to men who live in desirable private dormitories or in rooms along Mt. Auburn street. There were 59 applicants who live in these outside dormitories. The total number of applicants in the drawing was 143, of which 63 were successful. We see then, that the number of applicants from private dormitories was about one-third of the total number, and that nearly...
...heard their death sentence in the hall where sat the Revolutionary Tribunal up to the time when the victims were made to ascend the cart waiting at the gate of the Conciergerie. The itinerary followed by these carts on their way to the scaffold can readily be traced along the existing streets of the French metropolis...