Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquisition of the 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...
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...
...purchase of this site by Harvard was made in connection with its plans for the ultimate completion of the House Plan. President Lowell's program for subdividing the undergraduate body into small residential groups calls for the erection of a new unit on the land now occupied by the power house. The building is a substation of the Elevated, acting in a reserve capacity, and it also supplies heat by means of a tunnel for the University buildings in the yard and to the north of it as well as across the river to the Business School...
Field expeditions organized or sponsored by the American Museum last year were to many a site, for many a purpose. The most important...
...Angeles (school and park site planning, highways ahead of needs); Milwaukee (city employment offices); Chicago (parked waterfront); Auburn, N. Y. (wiping out diphtheria by general toxin-antitoxin immunization); Detroit (best type school buildings); Gary. Ind. (work-study-play method of education); Dallas (adult education); Cleveland (adult education; education against venereal disease; teaching parents how to raise children); Washington (education against venereal disease); Boston (district health centres); St. Louis (plenty of hospital beds); San Francisco (prevention, treatment & instruction of hard of hearing); Winnetka, Ill. (progressive education...