Word: wider
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...improvements o the basin, plans for the improvement of the bridges below the University boathouse have been definitely arranged. The Longwood bridge and the low railroad bride beside it will both be raised under authority of an act passed this year by the last state legislature. A new and wider bridge will be built connecting Boylston street, Cambridge, with Harvard street, Allston, thus affording a better approach to Soldiers Field. The act authorizing this bridge was also passed by the legislature...
...Graduates' Magazine for March contains, as usual, able discussions of some of the wider questions which interest the University, sidelights on our history, and comment on current matters...
...conception of what Germany stands for in modern civilization, what her ideals have been, what she has contributed to the world's best intellectual possessions. For this purpose books alone do not suffice. It was thought that this country, of all countries, should possess a German Museum in the wider sense of the word, since the great majority of the American people are of Germanic origin, and it is here that in modern homes descendants of all Germanic tribes have met on a common ground and carried on the work of civilization side by side...
...three feet longer than last year's boat; its depth is nine and three-quarters inches and its beam twenty-three inches; it weighs 250 pounds. The shell, which is made of Spanish cedar, is fuller forward on the gunwale than last year's boat, and is a little wider on the beam to make up for the increase in length...
...first of which President Eliot '53, at that time a tutor in Harvard College, rowed at four, and Professor A. Agassiz '55, at bow. She was the first six-oared shell built in America, and differed from the racing shell of today only in being shorter, wider and higher out of the water, and having more simple rigging...