Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor G. S. Forbes class in Chemistry 3 was temporarily disrupted yesterday morning by the sound of broken glass falling down the fire escape on the east side of Boylston Hall. At first it was thought that there had been an explosion in the laboratory upstairs, but closer investigation showed that the window had become unfastened and had blown out against the fire escape. No one was hurt, but S. W. Leonard '27 was narrowly missed by the flying glass as he was passing along the path below...
...Senior class, Junior class, University Band, Sophomore class, Freshman class, hired band, Law School, Medical School, graduates and carriages, containing the football team and leaders of the Republican party at college. The procession marched from the Charles Street Jail, up Commonwealth Avenue, down as far as Dartmouth Street to Boylston, past the Brunswick Hotel, where Mr. Blaine reviewed it, to Columbus Avenue, through to the South End, and finally into the business section...
...these rumors--whence are they?--foretelling an encroaching stranger to crowd back those comfortable neighbors, Grays and Matthews! Then fouler whisperings of downfall to old Boylston! Dear Boylston, old companion, whose gray and frowning brow exudes such sympathetic melancholy; staid neutralizer, in its sober thoughtfulness, against that youthful, grand, and awful Widner; that sprawling, showy presence whose mere thought has oft inspired a nightmare in the midst of daydreams. What perturbers of the sprit these winged devils are! More rumors still, though less distinct, of other changes to be wrought, more parvenu intruders in the moss-grown ranks. They come...
With the exception of two small research laboratories Boylston Hall has been the only Chemistry building which the University has been able to use since 1859 when it was built. The equipment has always been very poor, and now the building has been pronounced unsafe...
Technically the Jubilee begins at 4.30, for after that time no one will be allowed to enter Smith and Standish Halls without tickets. Only the Boylston Street gateway will be open and there all students and guests will be required to surrender their tickets, receiving in return a tag which must be worn all evening. Canvas will be stretched from the northeastern corner of Standish Hall to the Freshman Athletic Building and from the Athletic Building to the corner to James Smith Hall, thus blocking off a large area, from which the usual parked cars have been removed, and this...