Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dining hall in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the present site of the Boylston Chemical Laboratory, with table d'hote service in three of the four halls, and a cafeteria-grill in the fourth, is the suggestion of A.H. Harlow Jr, '29, in the following essay, which won the third prize in the recent Crimson essay contest. Capable management, under a non-University direction, if necessary, is declared a panacea for most of the present dietetic ills...
Proceeding up Mt. Aubura Street I shall then turn left on Boylston Street and continue along it to Lars Anderson Bridge. This bridge it has been said, was named in honor of a companion of the famous lief Erieson who sailed up the river now known as the Charles and built a house on its banks where he lived until driven away by the universites. Later investigation has, how ever, shown this story to be without truncation...
After 12.30 o'clock, Harvard Square from Quincy to Brattle Streets, Boylston Street, Cambridge, the Anderson Bridge and North Harvard Street, Brighton, as far as Western Avenue, will be closed to automobile traffic. The only automobile gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be Gates 12 and 13 on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street and down Market Street to the Speedway...
...Boylston Left 1500 Pounds...
From this time onward the endowment of professorships at Harvard rapidly increased. Nicholas Boylston of Boston, when he died in 1771, bequeathed to the College 1,500 pounds for the foundation of a "Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory." The Corporation in rendering its thanks for the donation, asked the executors of the will to permit a full length portrait of Boylston to be drawn, at the expense of the College, and placed in Harvard Hall, with those of Hollis and Hancock. The painting, which was executed by Copley, is considered one of the most successful and finished examples...