Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everything is changing. Cambridge even Cambridge hits up the stride. A triumphal arch for the site of the Washington Eim? An hotel to replace Beck Hall? A silver-screen emporium for the Square? The razing of the Rotunda...
...days of staid Beck Hall are nearly over, and with their passing comes the possibility that upon the excellent site may be erected a moving picture theatre. Such a project the University authorities would doubtless resent, but their opinion when substantiated by nothing stronger than impotent feeling, has often been completely disregarded by aggressive investors...
...University may have a moving picture theatre next year, if the new owner of Beck Hall favors a proposition made to him recently...
...site in the University is more fortunately situated for this purpose than the Beck Hall plot. It is virtually on the Square and immediate to the Yard. So far as the new owner can determine, the zoning laws permit the erection of a theatre on his property...
...building should be a hotel it will fill an acute need in the college life, providing for visitors accommodations which are satisfactorily near the Yard. If the building is completed in the form of an apartment, the appointments will be in great contrast to those of the present Beck Hall...