Word: mta
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According to a reliable source, if the Commonwealth is successful in taking over the Old Colony, the University will have an excellent chance of obtaining the Bennett St. MTA yards across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses. Harvard has long wanted the site for construction of the tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College...
...same time, a reliable source disclosed that such a transaction was definitely integral to University success in obtaining the also controversial Bennett St. MTA yards across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Harvard has long wanted this site for construction of the tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College...
...principal stumbling blocks in the MTA-University negotiations has been the Authority's alleged difficulty in finding a substitute for the Cambridge yards. Reportedly, passage of the Governor's bill will provide the MTA with an adequate replacement in certain Old Colony facilities...
Amalgamation of the Old Colony with the MTA is a major part of Governor Volpe's plan to revitalize the long-suffering Boston transit system. It is reported that inherent in Volpe's proposal is the hope that an efficient rapid transit to the South Shore communities will help to decrease the growing automobile traffic from that area to the vicinity of down-town Boston...
Master Leighton himself disagrees with those who think that the "presence of beds is the essential thing" in organizing House life for educational purposes. "The time spent on the MTA or looking for parking places," the Master said, "is not such a disadvantage that it cannot be overcome by other advantages more than adequate. Moreover, it is unfair to discriminate against a local boy if he wants to live at home. It should not be the aim of the College to take selected young manhood away from parents...