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...second half of "The Tunnel: Subterranean Harvard," part of which appeared in Tuesday's CRIMSON, will be printed in next Tuesday's paper. The author says, "It will be worth the wait...
...Harry told us. To support his statement he indicated the power conduit (a metal pipe of modest size) and the telephone lines (several thick black cables). It seemed to us that the whole service system of Harvard was also quite vulnerable to sabotage: an agent provocateur loose in the Tunnel could easily paralyze the University preparatory to leading a junta against it. We asked Harry whether unauthorized persons might wander in. "Rarely," he answered. "Occasionally, an outside contractor working in the Tunnel leaves a door open by mistake and a curious undergraduate comes through, but we soon catch...
...Chamber, one of three large junctions in the system. We spent some time examining control panels and gauges before we discovered that the noise was due to an enormous fan unit. The Widener Chamber, we learned, is also a ventilation center, where stale air is pumped out of the Tunnel and fresh air sucked down from the surface. (Some of the intake air is compressed to operate control units in the heating system.) The exhaust outlet of the Widener Chamber gave us, at least, a chance to locate ourselves with reference to the surface topography: it was high above...
From the Widener Chamber the Tunnel strikes out in three directions. The shortest spur goes east under the basement of Widener, Houghton, and Lamont Libraries. A second arm (the one we had been in) runs north to Weld (where we had entered) and beyond to the Law School and science laboratories. The third section goes south to the Houses and the Business School. We followed this for a short distance--it looked just like the ear-her part of the Tunnel until we came to another smaller chamber. "Here," said Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway...
After we had tired of riding back and forth, a new difficulty occurred to us: how, we wondered, did the Tunnel get to the Business School? We could scarcely believe Harry's answer. The Tunnel, he told us, actually runs through the Weeks footbridge to the other side of the Charles. We resolved at once to make the trip, and urged Harry to lead us. But Harry was a Main Yard man, unauthorized to cross the Massachusetts Avenue border into the South Yard; in order to follow the Tunnel farther we would first have to clear our itinerary with...