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...augment the city’s coffers.But before either party could have its way, the MTA (now called the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) would have to agree to sell its 12 acres west of Kirkland and Eliot Houses near the Charles River. Called the Bennett Street Yards, the lot was the only facility for maintenance and repairs on the entire subway system. But it occupied some of the most valuable land in Massachussets.Beginning in 1955, the University entered negotiations to buy the yards. In 1959, after four years of inconclusive talks, the University escalated its bid to acquire the Bennett...
...Plays for the Loeb would have to be faculty approved, a bureaucratic barrier that students had not encountered before. “Once you had a major space that cost a lot of money, you had to have decision making on a faculty level,” Kopit said. Obtaining space in the Loeb depended on one’s relationship with faculty members, notably Robert Chapman, the director...
...entire engagement process, both families remained heavily involved, providing an important “support system” for the young newly-weds, said Aljawhary. While Aljawhary may have originally been wary of marrying at a young age, she found that she and Jou had “a lot more in common” than she had anticipated. Jou and Aljawhary were officially married in December, a month after his proposal, in a ceremony performed by an imam. The wedding reception will take place in New Jersey, where the bride’s family lives, in July, because...
...unaware or unconcerned with the NDEA and declined to participate in the kind of activism one associates with college politics today and in the decade after the passage of the NDEA.“If there were 50 people who were taking strong positions that would have been a lot,” Ashley said. “The students were apolitical.”As the debate over loyalty oaths reached a fever pitch during the early fall of ’59, administrators reluctantly participated in the program with the hope that a bill championed by then-Senator...
...claims it already is.RR: Well I think you are a presumptuous 20-year-old with bad ideas.SG: Okay, then I will transfer to Stanford.RR: Okay, then I will call Provost Etchemendy at Stanford and ensure that your transfer application is rejected.SG: Well, I’ll make a lot of noise. I’m going to make a difference in the world. If you’re going to help me, you’re going to help me. And if you’re not, you’re not.RR: I will not help you. I am Drew...