Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...almost a block of houses. This would add something to the expense but the advantage of the project seem to outweigh any expenditure incurred by tearing down a few frame and brick structures. Furthermore, while the report stipulates the purchase of the plot bounded by the Smith Halls, Dunster, Boylston, and Mt. Auburn Streets, this acquisition is not immediately essential. It would require a greater difference than this in financial outlay between the proposition of the Student Council and any alternate proposal to justify the sacrifice of an ultimate gain to an immediate economy...
...acquisition of the plant completes the crescent of Harvard's frontage on the Charles from Boylston street to Western Avenue on both sides of the river. The Western end of the crescent will be closed according to the official statement, by a new House to be built on the site of the power plant, adjacent to Smith Halls. But the development of the remainder of the Cambridge side of the river, below McKinlock Hall, must be governed by its remoteness from the greater part of the University. To build more Houses here for College undergraduates would be impractical considering...
...employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available for the structure are undesirable for this purpose because of their proximity to residential or working sections of the University. It would appear that, apart from the House on Boylston street, a replacement of the power plant built on land that is now waste is a step of immediate usefulness which may be taken on Harvard's unimproved property...
Another definite step towards the ultimate consummation of the House Plan comes with the completion of the sale of the Boston Elevated Company's power plant at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston Street. Both interested parties have signed the necessary documents, according to a statement from University Hall, and the property will be transferred to the University...