Word: rotunda
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...move the subway rotunda out of the center of Harvard square entirely, to reduce it in size, or to do nothing at all, leave traffic problems unsolved, and save the people's money--these will be the three choices before the Committee on Street Railways of the Massachusetts legislature, when the question of Harvard square traffic congestion comes up for a hearing some time within the next two weeks. It is likely that the committee will reach a decision culminating a dispute which has raged ever since the construction of the rotunda fifteen years...
...George Wright, president of the Harvard square Business Men's Association, has just filed a petition with the legislature calling for the replacement of the present rotunda by a new exit and entrance on the corner of Dunster street and Massachusetts avenue. This proposal is vigorously opposed by Representative Arthur F. Blanchard '04 of Cambridge, himself a member of the committee which will decide the matter. Mr. Blanchard is sponsor for the less expensive alternative of reducing the size of the station...
...pedestrians will look at me when I signal them to cross. And then when the cars get started, they all try to cross in every direction, and I have to wave around like a windmill to watch them." Mr. Murphy, however, admitted that the elimination of the rotunda would help matters...
Busts of William M. Chase, Walter Shirlaw, Clinton Ogilvy, H. K. Brown, J. Q. A. Ward, Carroll Beckwith, George Inness, Frank Duveneck have already been placed in the Library rotunda. The Whistler bust will be by Frederick MacMonnies, who knew Whistler intimately in student days at the Academic Cormon, Paris. Joseph Pennell, Whistler authority, and W. Francklyn Paris, architect, comprise the memorial committee...
...hours after the President died, his body was conveyed from the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, with simple ceremonies to the special train which had carried him .on his outward journey. On a fast schedule it started across the continent to Washington. Plans were made for formal obsequies in the Rotunda of the Capitol on Wednesday and interment at Marion, Ohio, on Friday. Calvin Coolidge, who succeeded to the Presidency, appointed that day for national mourning...