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...work in Harvard Square has been further complicated by the size of the underground station, which is being constructed with special reference to the quick handling of large crowds. In the centre of the Square there will be erected an exit and entrance station similar to the one at Scollay Square. Further entrances are being placed in front of the Co-operative Society's branch store and at the waiting room, adjoining Amee's Bookstore. Exits are being arranged near Dane Hall and across Massachusetts avenue from Holyoke street...
...Side Lights" are of transient interest. Toward the close of the number everybody seems thirsty. A correspondent urges the restoration of the Yard pump even if Fresh Pond water has to be artfully substituted for the perilous spring water that lurks underground near Hollis. His letter is accompanied by a portrait of the old pump and an ode of President Roosevelt's College days, reprinted in its honor. Later the editor demands a fountain. Just what he says about, I cannot tell, since my proof stops short in the middle of a word, and the time vouchsafed by the Magazine...
...most inadequate of all are the toilet facilities in Holworthy and Thayer. In the basement of the former is one toilet room for the whole building. More need not be said. In Thayer there is one toilet in the basement of each entry. "They are all underground, gloomed by high-set, unclean windows, which preclude good ventilation, and lighted by one or two dim-flickering gas jets. The rough brick walls are often dirty and the wood work is worse. Compared to any respectable house or hotel they are Mr. Viles." This description is not overdrawn...
...received the degree of C.E. three years later. In 1898 he went to China, and spent a year there building the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1894 to 1904 he was chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York, and acting in this capacity, constructed the whole underground transit system of the city. In 1904 he was made a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the Consulting Board of Engineers. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission of London Traffic since 1904, and last year...
...past 60 years Mr. Stone has lived in Framingham. Before the Civil War he was interested in the anti-slavery government, and later was connected with the "underground railroad...