Word: widener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surely the most lasting part of that stuff called education which colleges dispense. There are those who think that a college should function only in the class room, but it is infinitely easier to believe with the multitude that a properly proportioned counter-poise of other interests can only widen and enlarge the value of undergraduate life. What is impossible is to attempt to mix the two; Athletics can contribute no more to "indifference" than "indifference" can contribute to athletics. But together they make a full man. If we are going to have sports, let us have them...
...departments; I mean knowing the how and the why of all that goes on in regard to Harvard. I wonder how many undergraduates have a very definite idea of what President Lowell is striving to attain, of the building program, of the reason why it is so necessary to widen Holyoke Street, of the purpose of the tutorial system or of divisional examinations or of the Union...
...Widen Court St. in Boston...
Court Street, in Boston, will be widened to take care of the increase in traffic out of Boston. To aid in caring for the great number of vehicles that are expected to use this street, it was deemed necessary by the Planning Board to widen Cambridge Street for several blocks at the end of the Cambridge Bridge and thus create a new thoroughfare. In order to relieve the congestion at Harvard Square, it is planned to remove the street railway tracks from Broadway and repave it. Thus with the new cut-off through the Delta, vehicles would have a well...
With the new Chapel placed where Grays now is, Mr. du Fais would proceed to widen Holyoke street to a broad avenue, stretching from the Charles River Parkway up to the Chapel. This would necessitate the tearing down of Holyoke House, in all probability, and of the Pudding. Mr. due Fais does not believe, however, that this should stand in the way of the execution of his plan, as he would thus have convertd Holyoke street into the main avenue of approach to the University from Boston, flanked on either side by dormitories, and presenting a very attractive appearance...