Word: walking
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...distinctly apologetic. The advocates of this site do not pretend that the far side of Quincy street is, in any sense, a College centre; they content themselves with asserting that it can be made a centre, or with sneering at the idea that men will not care to walk for three or four minutes out of their way to reach the club...
...proposed site is within three minutes' walk from the following places: Memorial Hall, Holworthy Hall, Little's Block, and the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets. When one stops to consider that all the dormitories of the Yard, 16 private dormitories, countless lodging houses, and ten club houses are within three minutes of the proposed site, the complaint that the site is out of the way seems groundless. Of course if we could tear down some building in the Yard, and erect the club on its site, the walk to the club would be shortened by almost 100 seconds...
...question of habit. What one of us who in his Freshman year frequented Sanborn's ever thought of it as being "out of the way"? Those who went, went as a matter of course and never thought of the distance. Yet Sanborn's is less than 60 second's walk from the proposed site. When the Union is completed the Freshman class at least will form the habit of frequenting it. As they advance to be Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, the habit will certainly stay with them to some extent. Moreover it will be the same way with each succeeding...
...those going to or returning from Soldiers Field. One man, as much interested as any one in this project, said to me at a class dinner not long since, "I hear the objection made (with a twinkle in his eyes) that it is too far for the students to walk!" At least ten persons whom I have consulted agree with the above, first choice--the corner of Harvard and Quincy streets, second choice--the lot on which the "Foxcroft" stands, and distinctly not the old Dane Hall lot." GRADUATE...
...Boston could be reached only by a long walk, students rarely attended social parties, and then did not mingle with Cambridge people. The principle intellectual interest was the study of Shakespeare, and one of the strongest influences in College life was school teaching. Systematic exercise of any kind was not instituted until twenty-five years later...