Word: mta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When students catch colds, they drop in for a shot of penicillin at the Hygiene Building. When they get toothaches, they visit the clinic's complete dental facilities. But when they suffer eyestrain, they face the unhappy alternative of ruining their eyes or riding in to Boston on the MTA to see a specialist. As a result, many students delay a checkup until their original eye strain is worse...
...hundred and ten times a day, the westbound train of the MTA's Cambridge underground roars through the site of Harvard's third oldest dormitory. Somewhere between the Central stop and the Harvard stop lies Goffe College, buried under the asphalt of Massachusetts Avenue. There are no MTA signs to mark it, and nobody has ever gotten off their ignorance, for Goffe College has been off the Harvard Tour since...
...years, Goffe College had slumbered beneath Massachusetts Avenue, lost to history. Reclaimed in 1910, it slumbers still. Two metal plates, polished by the tires of thousands of buses and automobiles, mark its site in the asphalt, while below, the MTA rattles heedlessly past the stones of Mrs. Goffe's kitchen...
Moscow may crow about its subway system, and Parisiennes make love in the "Metro," but nobody likes the MTA. Armed with a home-town Newspaper, the pedestrian has merely to descend into the Harvard Square station to reason why: the price of a ride has risen to twenty cents...
Exhausted by thesis, hour exams and term papers, the student can look forward on April 3 to nine days of travel, unlimited by the tunnels of the MTA...