Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While architects have been busy finishing their plans for the proposed hotel on the corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets, hostile sentiment in the University has been growing. Yesterday Mr. C. A. Coolidge '81, Chairman of the University Planning Board released to the CRIMSON a chart of the future grouping of Harvard's buildings, showing how a hotel on the old church site will mar these plans...
...connecting link between the old Yard and the "New Yard", the Planning Board feels that Holyoke Street should be widened into an avenue. The large ten-story hotel on the corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets would make any such alteration impossible. The hotel is also out of keeping with the Board's plans for the retention of the Mount Auburn Street district as a club section, an informal, but intrinsic segment of their proposals. Undergraduate feeling against Mr. Wyner's project is based largely on this second reason
...Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles does Harvard own? How much of the remainder is owned by Harvard men who will cooperate? How did it happen that Maurice-Firuski, owner of the Dunster House Bookshop, had been able to purchase from the University Associates without stipulations as to use the corner which his store occupies on Mt. Auburn and Dunster Streets...
...last named of these plots was disposed of by the Associates to Maurice Firuski over two years ago. Why--was this very vital corner sold to a private owner and not to the Corporation as had been the custom? The three trustees of the group are Mr. Edmund G. Parker '77, Mr. Harold J. Coolidge '92, and Mr. Augustus P Loring Jr. '06. Mr. Loring, when questioned last night, declared that the University Associates as at present constituted had absolutely nothing to do with the University, and that they were a purely business group organized to deal in real estate...
...headlines of Saturday's CRIMSON blazon forth with the startling news that a ten-story hotel is to be erected on the site of the old St. Paul's Church, at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. Every Harvard man must receive such news with a grave apprehension for the future of the University. It must be the secret if perhaps unexpressed wish of all who are interested in Harvard to see the land between Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles become an integral part of the college, and built up according in some plan that will do justice...