Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 15 years ago, students and faculty in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design grew extremely interested in the Harvard Square problem. Numerous student projects were devoted to the task of getting pedestrians across the street without making them run, and getting cars through the Square without forcing them to stall...
...Center existed in its present location at 23 Arrow Street directly across from Adams House's A entry as a recreation center until three years ago when Father Feeney turned it into a school...
From the appearance of this article two years ago until the whole matter burst into the headlines on April 13, 1949, the controversy was kept a secret by Father Feeney and other Catholic officials. Recently, however, the facts of the intervening period have become known...
Those who are looking for a scapegoat will undoubtedly aim their fire in the general direction of the HAA for it presents an inviting target, but as far as this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...
Lunden has made an honest mistake. There was no evidence two weeks ago of the unprecedented demand for Columbia tickets. He had to guess and he guessed wrong. Much as it may grieve many of the fire-eaters, you cannot fairly denounce the ticket denounce as a hopeless hungler, especially after Saturday's loss to Stanford. Yet the grotesque situation remains. 9500 people want to go to New York to see the Crimson play Columbia. Only the wiseacre undergraduates, the guys who applied last week and got section 5, or the fifty yard line, will see the game from good...