Word: sites
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examination of the arguments of those who favor the Warren House property as a site for the Harvard Union discloses the significant fact that they are distinctly apologetic. The advocates of this site do not pretend that the far side of Quincy street is, in any sense, a College centre; they content themselves with asserting that it can be made a centre, or with sneering at the idea that men will not care to walk for three or four minutes out of their way to reach the club...
...objections to a Quincy street location, then are real and potent, not fictitious. None of them is met in connection with College House site. It is central, convenient and physically suitable, situated on a broad avenue and facing, as it does, the main College gate. A. N. Rice. R. W. Bliss. W. Morrow. R. C. Bolling. F. L. Higginson, Jr. S. W. Lewis...
Allow me as an old graduate and as the first president of the Colonial Club to call attention to the value of that club's experience upon the selection of a site for the proposed Harvard Union...
When the Colonial Club was first formed, great objection was made to its site on Quincy street as not a convenient one in any respect. It was claimed that the expanse of the College Yard separated it from Ward One and that it was only accessible by rail from other parts of the city. Even the Warren estate, now proposed for the Harvard Union, was urged as being more desirable, and an unavailing effort was made to buy it. Nevertheless the location has turned out to be a most desirable one; not only do the College professors and graduates...
Therefore I say, build the Union on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets. It is the most available site we possess. Centre in the club as many College interests as possible and it will consequently become a rendezvous. It will even be considered convenient, and custom and usage will abolish all thoughts to the contrary. A JUNIOR...