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...announced that Harvard College was to receive from General Samuel J. Bridge, an adopted alumnus of the college, a valuable gift of a statue commemorative of the man whose name it bears. This statue is to be of bronze and will be placed in the small delta at the west end of Memorial Hall. As we have no representation of John Harvard nor any description of his personal appearance, a very exacting demand is to be made upon the skill of the artist who is to represent the form and features of the founder of our college. Little assistance...
...company's engineers. Neither has been formally approved by the company, however, so that it is uncertain which the commissioners will be asked to approve. One of the routes has already been described. Within the limits of New Haven it runs mostly on the east side of West river, although avoiding the thickly settled portion of the western district whose residents rose up in such unanimous and determined opposition against the original layout as to secure its rejection. The second amended line skirts the west bank of West river for quite a distance and goes across the new grounds...
...quarter-mile each. The first was made in 51 2-5s., the second in 55s., the third in 46 2-5s.. and the fourth in 52 4-5s., a total of 3m, 31 4-5s., or 28 1-5s. faster than West-hall's best on record. The four quarters were run inside 45 minutes...
...most direct cause of any increase of this sort lies in the continually enlarging number of Harvard graduates who settle in the West and South and who exert their influence directly and indirectly towards increasing the representation of their localties among the students of the college. The Harvard clubs now firmly established in all the larger cities of the country exercise a very considerable influence of this sort. But it is open to the students themselves even before they go forth from the college as graduates and take their positions in the world to exert an influence in drawing students...
...which the whole structure rested was never driven in until it struck a solid foundation, but was merely inserted in holes dug in the mud for the purpose. Upon this pile rested a transverse beam, from which the pillars reached to the upper platform. A short distance to the west this beam was spliced. The main pillar which supported the weight above was not a continuous piece of timber, but was patched at the lower part with a smaller piece which was let a short distance into the transverse beam. At this same point was inserted a plank running...