Word: allston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans for the commuter center--the rough equivalent of Dudley House--had grown firm enough for Charles P. Whitlock, present dean of Harvard College and then Dudley's Allston Burr Senior Tutor, to discuss publicly the size of the proposed building. That autumn The Crimson even carried a sketch of tentative plans for the five-story building, which was to be erected shortly after what is now the new part of Quincy House. The Crimson story concluded by stating that the commuter center would "definitely" be built on the Mt. Auburn-Plympton St. corner...
...that swallowed it after the commuter center plan faltered. Indications are that no long-term commitment of the land can be expected in the next five to ten years. The interim version of the planning office's "Long Range Plan for Harvard University and Radcliffe College in Cambridge and Allston" classifies the lot as being without any "foreseeable" prospect for future development. Supratik Bose, manager of long range planning, believes that Red Line subway extension work will force many cars down Mt. Auburn, making it an unsuitable site for a building...
With that ultimatum Harvard swung into action, proposing that the library corporation use three acres of the Business School land in Allston for a museum site. The offer was doomed from the start. Although residents of the community behind the MBTA yard site supported the Allston plan, residents of the Riverside community of Cambridge, immediately across the river from the Allston site, rejected it. The plan failed to meet Smith's requirements...
Volpene, by Ben Jonson, is another play you might want to catch before it departs July 31. It's being presented at an outdoor theater at 1175 Soldier's Field Road in Allston, Wednesday through Saturday at 8:30. Tickets cost...
John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. Country and western swing, with a new guitarist and a new fiddle player, at Bunratty's on Harvard Street in Allston tonight through the weekend...