Word: gulf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...faculty meeting two weeks ago, Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes presented an interesting and convincing objection to Harvard's plan to build a hotel on the Quincy Square spot currently occupied by the Gulf station. Landes asked why, when the University is having so much trouble finding places for professors to work, would the administration propose to devote resources and valuable space for what would primarily be a profit-making venture...
Harvard is not proud of its current hotel, Harvard Motor House, located on Eliot Street, and wants to use the recently acquired Gulf station property to build a more attractive, 150-200 room, medium-priced hotel. There are precedents for universities owning hotels--they can be a good source of revenue and a convenient place for visiting parents to stay. If Harvard were simply trading one hotel for another, there would not be much concern...
...over to an outside developer and would not, at this point, house any University administrative or academic offices--it would be a purely profit-making venture for the school. It seems that it would not be as profitable for the University to build its hotel on that space; the Gulf station property on Mass. Ave. would not be as lucrative for offices, but a hotel would do well there...
...said that SCSC has proposed the University squash courts, Lowell Lecture Hall and the area of the Gulf station as alternative locations for the center...
Self-assured, quick witted and highly conservative, Lott, 47, has represented the state's relatively prosperous Gulf Coast region in the House since 1972. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, he defended Richard Nixon against impeachment charges. By 1980 his ability to keep friends while taking hard-line positions brought him election as Republican whip. Campaigning for Dowdy, Stennis argued that Mississippi would lose clout, especially in keeping its many defense jobs, with two Republicans in a Democrat-controlled Senate. Lott had an apt reply: "We don't need two Senators who are going to cancel out each other...