Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides the Western Ave. site, Kennedy is also considering locations further upriver on Metropolitan District Commission property, the Bennett St. MTA Yards, and the Shady Hill site on Francis Ave. He has consistently expressed his wish for a river front location...
Earlier this spring, Wiggins said that the President was giving top priority to the MTA yard location, but as Kennedy himself observed when he came to Cambridge two weeks ago, "The MTA Yards are still owned by the MTA...
Wiggins has pointed out that the MTA property is about twice as expensive as the land near the Business School...
...Memorial Hall was more than enough--Harvard's drive to amass a whole collection of them ought to be halted before it's too late. The University now seems likely to acquire the Bennett Street MTA yards and the threat of an orange-topped How-ard Johnson's being erected in our midst has been averted. What will rise in its stead, however, no prudent man can say. Seeing the practical jokes University architects have perpetrated in relatively cramped spaces, there is no way of imagining what they will do with twelve acres. Clearly, something must be done about Harvard...
...crowd surged along Massachusetts Ave. toward the Square, and Cambridge police lined the curbs with their cops to keep the students off the street. Finally they reached the MTA kiosk, and a University policeman was seen confiscating several bursar's cards...