Word: macdonald
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...According to MacDonald, the store used to be “a den of sin” where “you just see clouds of smoke and guys playing billiards.” For a time in the early 1900s, freshman were banned from the store, most likely at the University’s request...
...don’t think the store would turn them away unless they had to,” MacDonald says. “It’s probably the university putting pressure on the store, saying, ‘You’re corrupting our young men, our fine young...
...like an outpost for Harvard athletics,” MacDonald says, although he notes that the University has never officially been affiliated with the store...
...While MacDonald says the Square was once a place where you could find a convergence of people from all backgrounds—with “Nobel Prize-winning professors sitting next to a burned out hippie sitting next to a street person”—an onslaught of commercialization has led to a shift in the makeup of the Square’s customer base...
...Reed also applauds Leavitt and Peirce for its customer service—a quality that patrons praise and MacDonald prioritizes...