Word: tear
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Auburn streets. When one stops to consider that all the dormitories of the Yard, 16 private dormitories, countless lodging houses, and ten club houses are within three minutes of the proposed site, the complaint that the site is out of the way seems groundless. Of course if we could tear down some building in the Yard, and erect the club on its site, the walk to the club would be shortened by almost 100 seconds. Moreover the student could drop in for a minute or so between lectures, but how short are those minutes when compared with the whole afternoon...
...editorials and communications which you have published, opposing the erection of the University Club at Quincy and Harvard streets, there has been no suggestion as to a more desirable and, at the same time, possible site. To tear down Dane Hall, College House or Wadsworth House is highly impracticable. In Dane Hall are the Bursar's offices and the Co-operative Society's rooms. From the stores on the first floor of College House the University receives a large annual rent, and, consequently, there is a strong economic reason why the building ought not to be destroyed in order...