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Herbert Baldwin, publicity director of the MTA, said last night that the Square was not intended to be a terminal, and although some lines ended their routes there the buses only used the Square to turn around and start back...
...implications of the Westchester episode are staggering. They open up a whole new field to aggressive advertising. For a certain consideration to the MTA, streetcar motormen could be instructed to stop each passenger as he pays his fare, sieze him by the lapels, and chant: "THROW AWAY YOUR DISH TOWELS! The Crossly Automatic Dishwasher-Drier Washes and Dries faster then any other Dishwasher," or some such maxim...
...long that its imminent introduction into a City Councilman's scrimmage next week, while welcome, is surprising. Councilmen have long contended that the easiest way to handle Cambridge's parking problem is to ignore it. The combination of out-of-town students and week-day motorists riding the MTA into Boston forces thousands of extra cars into the city. So far Cambridge has overlooked inadequate garage facilities while ordering cars off the streets at night for safety reasons...
...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...