Word: plympton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter of 1956, the President and Fellows of Harvard College paid $33,000 for a pretty, grassy plot of land on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, intending to build on it. But the building plans fizzled, and no new plan has emerged in the intervening 19 years; the 13,000 square-foot plot is still grassy, still pretty, and obscured enough so few people now know who owns...
...evolutionary theory stands up, the process of natural selection for lot 81 dates back to 1956, when the Fly owned both its present property, on the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Holyoke Place, and the adjoining lot that runs all the way to Plympton St. Having "no particular use" for the land and jumping at the chance to cut its property taxes ("every square foot we sold saved us taxes"), the Fly offered the land to a highly interested Harvard, according to Thomas Whiteside '32, who was then and still is a trustee of the club. The deal, adds...
...autumn The Crimson even carried a sketch of tentative plans for the five-story building, which was to be erected shortly after what is now the new part of Quincy House. The Crimson story concluded by stating that the commuter center would "definitely" be built on the Mt. Auburn-Plympton St. corner...
...something is bothering you and you have a feeling The Crimson could help you, write of call Mark Penn at The Crimson, 14 Plympton Street, 495-5464. Starting next week you should get some results...
...something is bothering you and you have a feeling The Crimson could help you, write or call Mark Penn at The Crimson, 14 Plympton Street, 495-5464. Starting next week, you should get some results...