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...planned to demolish the old bridge a section at a time, laying the foundations for the new structure in correspondingly short stretches. Three huge pile-drivers will be used in this work. It will require several months. The new bridge will not be ready for use before the football season next fall, and as the temporary footbridge is only eight feet wide, the accommodation of the crowds at the spring track meets and baseball games will involve considerable difficulty...
Rapid progress is being made on the new Stadium Bridge, on which work was begun last Thursday. Piles, extending half way across the river, have been driven to support the temporary footbridge, which will be located about 50 yards upstream from the present structure. With the completion of this footbridge within two weeks, the old bridge will be wrecked and three huge pile-drivers will be set to work immediately. The new structure will be erected and ready for use in eight months...
Although that heterogeneous pile, known as Gore Hall, has been maligned severely by almost every student who has had the opportunity to suffer within its "Graeco-Baptist" walls, there are apparently several men who derive special benefits from this abode of learning. Either the Union has lost its charm as a social rendezvous or ten dollars has assumed a great marginal utility, for almost daily there congregate in Gore Hall little groups to hold conversation on all manner of things, from Kant's conception of the Ego to the most effective way to please Instructor X. Although conversation on these...
Captain Howe and Philbin were the surest men on the Eli team to gain ground. Holy Cross was greatly handicapped by the poor passing of her centre, which allowed the score to pile up higher than it otherwise would have...
...Hicks kept the hits fairly well scattered, holding down the score. On the other hand, the visitors acquired but eight safe ones off McKay, though half of these were concentrated in the last three innings and, coupled with the misplays of the University team, enabled the visitors to pile up five tallies...