Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fooled by the two 'Gulf sings that tower over Mass. Ave. across the street from the Harvard Union. Harvard tore down the gas station that went with the signs in December and is expected to announce plans to redevelop the site...
...Harvard's delay in deciding on a new use for the Gulf station site has already proved costly. On June 5, the City Council passed zoning change that cut by nearly 40,000 square feet the size of any new construction on the site...
...University decided to tear down the white neo-Georgian filling station that had occupied the site for nearly 50 years last winter. At that time Harvard officials were trying to avoid the legal hassles that could ensue if the building were allowed to reach the half-century mark...
Early in December Harvard's announced plan to build a 200-room hotel on the Gulf station lot came under bitter attack from the members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who wanted an academic building on the site. After the faculty unanimously called on Harvard to "reconsider" the hotel plan Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence appointed a three -member committee to look into alternate uses, and the hotel project was temporarily suspended...
...November, Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes shocked the administration by opposing its plan to build a new hotel on the Mass. Ave. Gulf Station site. Landes pointed out that in light of the shortage of FAS library and office space, the site should be used for academic purposes...