Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present the Department of War, which maintains the arsenal at Watertown, has insisted that the proposed bridge conform to one or the other of the foregoing regulations, but it now appears that the War Department will consent to the construction of the bridge provided only that all the land fronting on the river between the bridge and the arsenal is acquired for public purposes. At present there is only one piece of property within the limits named which is privately owned, and that is the Brighton abattoir. The only use which this company makes of the river...
...present all the property along the Charles River as far s the arsenal, with this single exception is under the control of the Boston Park Commission, the Cambridge Park Commission, or the Metropolitan Park Commission...
...resolution has been brought before the Cambridge City Council by Councilman F. W. Norris to take up the question of the construction of a new bridge across the Charles River at Boylston street. A public spirited citizen who withholds his name for the present has definitely offered the money to build an adequate and decorative bridge provided that a license can be obtained for a bridge without a draw which does not have to be as high above the river as the new Cambridge bridge...
...believe that there is considerable dissatisfaction among those who interest themselves in athletics in regard to the conditions under which "H's" are distributed in at least one branch of sport. That is cross-country running. In order to win an "H" under the present system one must lead a field of about seventy men in the intercollegiate run, and one must also have the good fortune to be on the winning team. If the framers of this strange device have any sense of humor they must have smiled at their work. It certainly does not cheapen...
Apparently it was with this last point in view that the present rules governing the award of cross-country insignia were drafted. Seeing that a place on the cross-country team insures the distinction of an "H.A.A.," and since cross-country men apparently have a better chance than any others to win the "H" in the mile and two-mile runs, we believe that the change suggested is hardly justified by the conditions...