Word: lindens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palmer Dixon '25, long one of the foremost supporters of squash and tennis at Harvard, has given $140,000 to the Program for Harvard College to be used mainly to renovate the University Squash Courts on Linden Street. When the renovating process is completed, the varsity squash team will use these courts as its home base during the season...
...particular, $120,000 of the gift will be used to build four gallery courts in the Linden Street building, with each pair of courts having a gallery capacity of about 300 persons. This will remedy one of the major difficulties with Harvard squash, for at present only about 30 or 40 people can comfortably watch a match in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...cannot join any other. The Porcellian and the A.D, the oldest and socially most prominent, perch unobtrusively above shops (J. August and Briggs & Briggs) along Mass. Avenue. In the rather vague hierarchy of social desirability, the next group includes (alphabetically arranged) the Delphic, better known as "the Gas" (on Linden St. opposite the University Squash Courts), the Fly (on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House), the Owl (Holyoke St. diagonally across from the I.A.B.), and the Spee (corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Sts.). Then come the Phoenix S. K. and the Iroquois (in adjoining buildings on Mt. Auburn...
...jewel-box theater was built during the reign of Elector Maximilian III Joseph (1745-77), of linden wood from the forests of Murnau, following the design of French Architect Francois de Cuvillies. In 1781 it was the scene of the first performance of Mozart's Idomeneo. But early in the 19th century the Bavarian court lost its taste for curlicues, and for a time the rococo theater served merely as storage place for scenery...
...were stunned to hear New Yorker Pierce say that he had netted $118,775 from the sale of five yachts, given some of the money directly to the New York CAP, invested the rest in a Manhattan building-and-loan association and an airplane sale and rental business in Linden, N.J. He still had a string of unsold yachts and $15,500 in cash, which he offered to the Miami CAP as compensation for having solicited gifts in its territory...