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...sites for the proposed dwellings will be on the tract between Hill Dormitory and the Pennsylvania station, running along University Place. One of these dormitories, housing 170 men, will be the largest on the campus. All of them will be built in the collegiate type of Gothic architecture similar to the buildings of Oxford and Cambridge...
...question of the "H" on the power plant next to Standish Hall is certainly worthy of more notice than it has so far received. The power house is today the outstanding ugly feature of the Charles River front. The three handsome Freshman Dormitories would make the tract very pretty were it not for this ugly structure. The construction of the "H" would make the plant an addition to the appearance of the waterfront instead of a blot. The giant "H" would catch the eye of every passer-by, consequently causing the plant itself to be unnoticed. Thus, the entire appearance...
...Baseball Cage, the Dunster swimming pool and its squash courts. Thirteen squash and racquet courts will be available in Randolph Gymnasium after repairs now under way are completed. It is hoped that it will be possible to erect a temporary Freshman gymnasium directly behind Standish Hall on a large tract recently acquired by the University and plans for its construction have already been submitted. The Winter sports will include ice hockey, swimming, boxing, fencing, wresting, squash, and racquets...
...nation, we are often criticized by Europeans, for a sordid sameness of life and institutions. Our cities, they point out, present the same square uninteresting outlines; the talk, in our homes, runs along the same tract of mediocre intellectuality; our youths and men are all alike even down to their gestures and vocabulary. Where, they ask, are our great scientists and statesmen...
University authorities announced that they had no definite plans for the development of the tract...