Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the second of two articles on the Harvard Tunnel...
Weld Hall, one of nine operating stations in the Tunnel system, regulates the busy Main Yard area of Harvard. Next year, when an electronic data processing unit is put in the basement, Weld will become the control center of the entire system. The office of Mr. Floyd Kingsbury, foreman of the Tunnel engineers, is strategically located next to the room in which this "computer" will reside, and it was here that Mr. Kingsbury gave us a briefing on how Harvard is heated...
...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...
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...