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...Once in a while you get someone whose book from Widener is overdue, and we can't let them leave the library with those. I tell them to take it through the tunnel or hold it for them for a few hours...and once in a while some people get really burned up over this. Generally, though, we try to make as little nuisance of ourselves as possible. Most students want to get on their way, and I want to help them...
...tunnel's nerve center is a Honeywell Delta 2500 computer housed in the basement of the Science Center. The computer monitors temperature, steam flow and other tunnel functions. Supervisors work around the clock here, watching the computer and receiving calls that come from maintainance men throughout the tunnels by means of the intercoms and a separate telephone system located at intervals in the passageways...
...most of its length, a tunnel runs from two to ten feet below street level, and almost all of it is high enough to stand in. In two stretches, however, obstacles restricted tunnel construction and special designs had to be employed. One was the MBTA subway line. Squeezed between the subway tunnel and Massachusetts Ave., the steam tunnel shrinks to a mere 3 1/2 feet in height. Workers must lie prone on a rolling flatbed cart and draw themselves along by means of a rope pulley system. Most maintenance men go above ground to avoid this segment, using the pull...
...Charles River was another obstacle for the tunnel-builders. Instead of burrowing under it, they chose to build over it--by means of the Weeks Bridge. The pipes that warm the Business School and the Soldiers Field complex snuggle in the hollow space beneath the walkway surface but above the arches that support the bridge. The passageway here is a wooden catwalk that runs up and over these rippling arches, creating a space that is quite high between the humps, smaller on the top of the arches, but always high enough to walk through, with an occasional stoop...
...barrier the architects could not overcome was the Cambridge Street underpass. Before it was built in 1967, the tunnels linked the Law School and the Yard. Now the pipes pass below the walkway surface, but the tunnel ends beneath Canaday and begins again near the Science Center...