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Princeton provided little better competition. Fasi again led all scorers with six goals in burying the Tigers. Button, senior Steve Munatones and sophomore Brian Johnston each chipped in three goals. Munatones was pleased with some aspects of the offense: "When we wanted to work something out there we could. But we like playing tougher teams...
...latest phase in the Red Line extension (1). the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority shut down the Harvard/Holyoke stations along Mass, Ave, and the Harvard/Brattle station near the K School. In their place, they opened up new terminals on Church St. and outside Johnston Gate. The shift was only the most visible sign of progress in the sprawling project, which has gutted the Square for five years and is expected to continue for another 18 months. The Square work is part of a $72 million project, which by 1986 will stretch subway service north beyond Harvard through Porter and Davis Squares...
...construction followed President Bok's proposal to reduce automobile traffic in the Yard by closing the gate behind Widener Library and making the Johnston area the main entrance. That request required a gatehouse for guards direction traffic but raised complaints from the Cambridge Historical Commission which discouraged any tampering with the three century old handicapped Designet Graham Gund appeased all sides with a colonial era plan. The facility is more modern inside equipped with a telephone lamp seat space heater...
...problem, it seemed, stemmed from physical limitations of the main traffic entry to the Yard--the gate on Mass, Ave, behind Widener Library. Big trucks couldn't fit through it. And Harvard needs lots of big trucks. So they periodically opened up Johnston Gate--the so--called front door to the Yard--to let them in. But careful and thorough studies revealed that two open gates meant more traffic than one. The answer, they said, was to open only one gate, which of course meant closing Widener gate and opening the Johnston Gate full time...
...silly. It seems like a simplified case of the Best and the Brightest using intricate formulas and training to create a project that, to the average Joe, at least, is wrong. The historical commission voted 5 to 1 to issue a "certificate of appropriateness," but few passersby walk through Johnston Gate without a giggle or a smirk. "Cookie house" is a common label floating around the Yard. One employee asked for the designs so he could build a doll house for his daughter, Scott, who says he himself is pleased with the final product, concedes that some might...