Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war, rotary traffic around the subway kiosk was attempted with disastrous results. At that time, there were trolleys to cope with, and the experiment permitted two-way traffic on the avenue nearest the Coop. The end result was only more confusion, and the police, city planners, et al, went back to the method of directing traffic with the help of a traffic booth and loudspeakers...
Rotary traffic under the new system involves more than merely an automotive merry-go-round. In addition to keeping traffic circulating around the kiosk in a counter-clockwise direction, the current plan involves the elimination of all trolley-busses and removal of trolley-car track. To speed subway traffic, the exit on Massachusetts Avenue near Wadsworth House has been turned into another entrance. Bus loading stations have been moved from the kiosk to in front of the Coop, and the traffic booth and traffic lights both eliminated...
...single step that will ultimately do the greatest good is the removal of the Harvard Square subway kiosk. Should the MTA got around to establishing a Porter Square station, the pill-box would either be relocated or at least subjected to much less pedestrian traffic. Simultaneously, much of the bus transferring would be moved up to Porter Square, with a subsequent ease on Harvard Square motorists. Rerouting of all unnecessary trucks around the Square would further the solution...
...appropriation for the second year of Paul Hoffman's ECA, which finances and administers the Marshall Plan, is still kicking around in committee. The bill is three months overdue for approval. It is about time for it to be passed...
...Harvard, nearly everyone reads the catalogue. Until their heads are buzzing with courses and hours and meeting places and half remembered advice that someone else's roommate gave them two years before. The result is a week of vacillating and browsing-known as "shopping around,"-for a fourth course, or one to audit, or just something to fill in the time between book lines. Here are some suggestions...