Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richelieu", Mr. Doolin, Boylston...
...Revolution of 1905", Mr. Vernadsky, Boylston...
...Richelieu", Mr. Doolin, Boylston...
...most disreputable of all the Freshman Halls. James and Persis Smith Halls, in the old days, were the freshman playgrounds and now, when no more Jubilants will trample the fugitive grass, they wear an air of faded youth. Outside the western gate runs the ceaseless traffic of Boylston Street and beyond it the dreary maze of the trolley car terminal. Kirkland, without the freshness of a new House, without the relief of the Charles to turn to, and with the hurly-burly of Cambridge at its back-door must establish its reputation in other ways...
When a visitor comes to Kirkland House it is to the Library, lodged in the old Hicks House on Boylston Street, that he is first taken. Connected with the main quadrangle by a flagrantly pea-green covered passage, the Library fills all three floors of the attractive colonial farm-house. Here a man can climb with his book up to the low-ceilinged attic rooms and can taste the joy of seclusion before an open-fire. With all its charm there are natural inconveniences, and perhaps for ordinary table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection...