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UNIVERSITY RECEIVES 30 ACRES

Gift of Land Situated Opposite Stadium on Boylston Street.

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A tract of land containing approximately 30 acres has been given to the University without restrictions by a group of 13 persons more or less intimately connected with the University. The land, which was formerly held by the Charles River Land Trust, is situated on Boylston street, Brighton, directly across the roadway from Soldiers Field.

University authorities announced that they had no definite plans for the development of the tract.

Those who joined in making the gift are Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, who gave Soldiers Field to the University; President Lowell, Andrew Carnegie, Eben S. Draper, James J. Storrow '85, George P. Gardner '77, Charles A. Stone A. M. '14, Edwin S. Webster, Mrs. Thomas B. Gannett, A. H. Bristow Draper, Francis L. Higginson '00, and the estates of Nathaniel Thayer '71 and James Stillman '96.

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