Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program looming ahead of the University, the Student Council has anticipated the situation with a program of development which is basically sound, elaborate and idealistic as it might at first appear. Disregarding the social and educational ramifications of the experimental project, it has offered in a new and second Yard a practical solution of the future construction problem. Passing over the question of the problematic success or failure of the proposed hoses, the Council points to the present opportunity of strengthening the physical homogeneity of the college. The aim of its report is fundamentally to direct the additions...
There is no radical element in the recommendation of a new Yard to supplement and keep inviolate the historic yard. The land within the suggested boundaries, Mt. Auburn Street on the north, Memorial Drive on the south, DeWolf Street on the east, and Boylston Street on the west, is virtually all owned by the University. The advisability of acquiring the rest, in view of the construction of the new Houses, is evident. The CRIMSON has previously pointed out the objections to further construction of dormitories on the river front east of McKinlock. The Council report "deplores any attempt to build...
...part of the University. To build more Houses here for College undergraduates would be impractical considering the distances from Widener Library the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, and the Museum. Perhaps the disposal of this land must wait until the center of Harvard population has been definitely shifted south, away from the Yard...
...small residential groups calls for the erection of a new unit on the land now occupied by the power house. The building is a substation of the Elevated, acting in a reserve capacity, and it also supplies heat by means of a tunnel for the University buildings in the yard and to the north of it as well as across the river to the Business School...
There are still some accommodations which have not been applied for, it was also announced. Juniors who were unsuccessful in the drawings may still get in the Yard by applying at the Bursar's Office...