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There was more than the usual number of traffic snarls in Harvard Square one morning last week. To add to the confusion the subway kept belching shoppers and workers late to the office, some of whom were absorbed by the clumsy cluster of orange busses and some of whom had to insinuate themselves between the cars toward the sidewalk...
...compulsory exercises at Harvard are very severe." "It is not a very grand place when compared with Cambridge or Oxford, but then it is not fair to compare them," and "a cluster of very hideous buildings," are other quotations from the article, parts of which follow...
...city of Cambridge, as its population enables it to be called, is about three miles distant from Boston, with which it communicates by horse cars. It presents a village-like appearance, as most of its houses are on circled by large gardens. Harvard College stands in its midst a cluster of very hideous rectangular red brick buildings, with two or three others, less unsightly, of grey stone. Its library is rich in old historical works relating to America, but scarcely any manuscripts' in fact manuscripts are scarcely to be found in any public collections in the United States. The library...
...Warehousing Co., director of a national bank, two trust companies, a sugar refinery, an abrasive wheel factory. Most of his fortune he made from the tube company, which manufactures oil well casings and pipelines. He took over its management in 1901, is now sole owner. Dr. Cook's cluster of green-&-white observatory buildings contain equipment worth $100,000, represent a total investment of $200,000. Last summer, at a cost of some $9,000, he acquired the world's biggest star camera, weighing more than two tons. It has a 61-in. lens, takes pictures...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...