Word: rotunda
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...building will be erected in the southwest corner of the Yard, directly opposite the subway rotunda...
This building will be located at the corner of the Yard nearest the rotunda, exactly on the site of old Dane Hall which was burned in 1917. Since that time the College offices have been housed in a temporary frame structure located next to Memorial Hall in the delta...
This tart suggestion was made yesterday by a representative of the Boston Elevated in the course of an informal discussion of the Harvard Square subway rotunda problem before the Committee on Street Railways of the Massachusetts Legislature. It was addressed to Mr. George Wright, president of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association, which is sponsoring a petition to remove the rotunda from the center of the square to the sidewalk...
...proposal to abolish the Harvard Square Subway rotunda ought to arouse a sentiment of deepest indignation in the breasts of all Harvard men. Intimately concerned as they are with the affairs of Harvard Square, Harvard men realize perhaps a little better than any others just how bad the traffic problem actually is; they dodge on-rushing machines in the morning on the way to classes, in the afternoon, going to the banks or the stores and even in the evening going into Boston. But through all these adventures and hardships, the rotunda looms large as an island of refuge...
...their College days in evading the frenzied motors which come flying up Massachusetts Avenue from Boston. This may well be so. It is a case for the Darwinians. But consider the freshmen, exposed to the worst conditions, possibly without adequate preliminary training. To them the Ice side of the rotunda must appear to be a special contribution of Providence for their safety while they are still serving their apprenticeships. Upper classmen, although now fully qualified as "artful dodgers" should remember the days of their youth, when they too relied on the uncompromising protection of the rotunda--not forgetting sundry entertaining...