Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million dollars were poured into the Brunswick's construction, when red brick and sandstone were originally mortered together on the corner of Boylston and Clarendon Streets in 1874. And this summer, after the hotel had for nearly 70 years catered to what an 1880 advertisement called "influential persons of taste," the University invested another $25,000 to revamp the marble-floored hallways, high-ceilings bedchambers, and tiny-tubbed bathrooms, into suitable apartments for 115 couples who need, as well as a place to go to school, a place to live, in Post War year...
...meager furniture which is provided--two chairs, a "sofa" and a table for the living room; a chair, bed or beds, and chest of drawers for the bedroom. Rooms on the first three floors of the Brunswick's five are a stately type, set off with bay windows overlooking Boylston Street for Copley Square, and fireplaces which comprise 19th century works of art in black walnut. Almost every living room has a mammouth mirror over one of those classic mantels...
...University and the BU Law School. After graduating from the latter and being admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he elected not to practice law but instead went into the book business. Since then, Mr. I. has acquired a huge stock of assorted writings that fills the basement of his Boylston Street store and that of a neighboring barber shop, in addition to his business "cubby-hole...
Broadway at 42nd Street would seem a hermit's haven to those who must suffer and wait in long lines at the Boylston and Widener Reading Rooms. Constantly overflowing with men competing for the few available books on their assigned reading lists, the rooms constitute a continual migraine for both students and faculty. No section man can adequately explain the reading when many of the students have not done the work, and the students are left in a hopeless state of frustration by taking quizzes on subjects they know nothing about. The problem is a very simple one; there...
...limited space and the scarcity of books present a sufficiently serious problem without students adding to the confusion. Men who cannot get books at the two main reading rooms should take advantage of the Harvard Union library, which has fifty percent more Government, History, and Economics books than Boylston. Students living in the Yard should plan their work for the evening hours, leaving the mornings and the afternoons for those who must commute. Only through wholehearted cooperation on the part of both Faculty and students can Monday quiz bull become well based fact...