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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...
...Cambridge is, after all, an academic center close to Kennedy's family home and political base. But the weight of the practical arguments against locating the memorial in this particular urban environment negates any sentimental considerations and renders the current plans to build on the site of the MBTA Yards ill-advised...
...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...
Demolition of the buildings on the eastern half of the yards was scheduled to begin next January, after the MBTA had vacated that sector...