Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Topsy P. Turvy '76 walked out of his Mather House room perched atop the MBTA car barns and took the elevator down to the Boylston St. exit. As he headed up Boylston St. toward the Square, he passed by the 23-story "Brattle Motel" and continued his trek to a class in the International Studies Center located between Littauer and the Science Center...
...early sixties, the MBTA Yards were the prime proposed location for Harvard's next house--dubbed Tenth House. Immediately after Kennedy's assassination, Winthrop House students asked Harvard to name Tenth House after the late president, but University officials wanted to avoid conflict with the Kennedy Library and deferred on the choice of names, finally selecting Mather...
Kennedy Library plans were, of course, moved from the Business School to the MBTA Yards in 1965, but before that switch the subway yards were considered fair game for Harvard expansion...
...University was studying ways to make undergraduates live in noisier rooms. The modest idea: build a House on airspace above the subway yards. At a 1960 hearing in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on a bill requiring the MBTA to sell the yards, Edward Reynolds '15, vice president for Administration, offered to buy the yards for market value plus $1 million...
...troubles since its quiet inception 10 years ago when President Kennedy personally selected a site near the Business School. The Library Corporation was formed soon after Kennedy's assassination, and in 1965 the City Council invited it to build the library in Cambridge--specifically mentioning the Bennett-Eliot MBTA Yards which were to be vacated soon. But the MBTA's plan to move the subway yards and repair facilities to Dorchester brought objections from residents there, and that plan was scrapped. Finally, the MBTA reached an agreement to establish new facilities in South Boston, where construction is now almost complete...