Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although Boylston Hall casts an exemplary evening shadow over its corner of the Yard, College Library officials are not trying to set an example for the University's dimout. Yet this would be a far better reason for closing the traditional home of Freshman History, Government and Economics studying than any they have to offer. Boylston Reading Room was closed when its head librarian got drafted at the beginning of the second session of Summer School. Now, rather than search too vigorously for a substitute, library officials are limping along on a make-shift summer arrangement that is unable...
Harvard's first Professor of Milltary Science and Tactics is honored in the new official name of Shannon Hall for the Mil Scl building on Boylston Street. Colonel James A. Shannon was head of the Infant ROTC in the summer of 1917, soon after it had been started by the War Department as one of the first units in the country...
Participants are to meet at Dunster House at 9 o'clock, then ride out to Brookline in a warm-up spin. The race will start from the corner of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Boylston Street at 9:30 o'clock and will end in the center of a mob of cheering females stationed in front of the Alumni Building at Wellesley, some 30 minutes later, after ten and a half miles of gruelling pedaling...
From mastodon to mice has been the tale of Boylston Hall's degradation. Built in the ivy-covered year 1857, it housed the chemical laboratories, the anatomical museum, and something called the New Jersey Mastodon. This latter exhibit proved a bad start, for the bones had been put together inexpertly and became a laughing stock in mastodonic circles. Reassembled, it has long since migrated to another part of the University, and the anatomical museum has gone in town to the Medical School...
...chemical laboratory, however, proved worthier of the historic hall. In still recent times it became a leading chemical research center under such men as Richards, Sanger, and Baxter. The laboratories moved to sumptuous Mallinckrodt and Converse in 1928, but Ec A students in Boylston 24 still wonder what the faucets...