Word: pedestrianism
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...University has asked the City for permission to create a huge pedestrian mall next to Memorial Hall by closing part of Kirkland St. and building a 400-foot underpass beneath Cambridge St. The $2 million project would mean anyone could walk from the Yard to the Law School without crossing a street...
...idea for the underpass--and consequently the pedestrian mall--seems to have come from the University, however. Wiggins said in his letter to Curry that "preliminary investigation indicates that there are no engineering problems involved, and informal talks with various Cambridge City department heads lead us to believe that this plan, if carried out, would be of the greatest benefit to the City...
...Interest in Justice. Author Wolff's balanced but pedestrian account ranks the Homestead strike as one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of U.S. labor-management relations. Neither side produced a real hero, but both sides produced plenty of villains. The strikers turned ugly, on one occasion beat seven injured Pinkerton men to death. Andrew Carnegie, a public friend and private enemy of union labor, scuttied off to Europe before the strike began. Henry Clay Frick, his partner, was left to do all the dirty work-and he did it willingly. Prick's strategy...
Only the percussion section was consistently attentive and spirited throughout the concert, especially the timpanist and the snare drummer, who managed to make the most pedestrian rhythmic punctuation sound fresh and vigorous...
According to Benjamin W. Gary Jr., the eventual hope is that Palmer St. will be turned into a pedestrian mall with supply trucks permitted only during specific hours of the morning and afternoon...