Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very few people will be surprise at the announcement of the purchase by the University of the Boston Elevated Company's power plant at Boylston street and Memorial Drive. The building has so long been though of as Harvard's property, or at least as obtainable almost at will, that speculation has run rather on what might happen when it was gone. Now that its disappearance before Harvard's expansion southward has become a matter only of time, there arise two questions of prime importance: What to do with the riverfront which is now open for development, and where...
...plant completes the crescent of Harvard's frontage on the Charles from Boylston street to Western Avenue on both sides of the river. The Western end of the crescent will be closed according to the official statement, by a new House to be built on the site of the power plant, adjacent to Smith Halls. But the development of the remainder of the Cambridge side of the river, below McKinlock Hall, must be governed by its remoteness from the greater part of the University. To build more Houses here for College undergraduates would be impractical considering the distances from Widener...
Similarly, the opposite bank of the Charles may lie fallow until the growth around it has taken shape, when new uses will undoubtedly arise for it. That part of it back from the river, behind Baker Library, might, however, be put to immediate as a site for the power plant which must be erected to supply Harvard with heat and light. Already the Weeks Bridge carries the pipes for the service of the Business School. The same ducts might be employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available...
Another definite step towards the ultimate consummation of the House Plan comes with the completion of the sale of the Boston Elevated Company's power plant at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston Street. Both interested parties have signed the necessary documents, according to a statement from University Hall, and the property will be transferred to the University...
Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...