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MIT man on Harvard Bridge
By adamg on Mon, 06/09/2014 - 6:38am
Leslee captured an MIT alumnus crossing the Mass. Ave. Bridge yesterday.
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50th reunion red jacket
MIT alumni buy these red jackets and hats to wear at their 50th reunion. So he's from the class of 1964.
At least
They're allowed to wear them after 50 also, so he could be from an earlier class.
Who knew , I always
Who knew , I always considered that the MIT bridge , and the one in Harvard Square, now JFK street but before Boylston street, the Harvard bridge. You would think that MIT would have their own bridge.
Bridge was there before MIT was
The bridge was built 25 years before MIT moved to its current location in Cambridge (from Copley Square).
Who knew , Ron baby
Who knew , Ron baby
" In 1916, MIT moved to a new campus on a mile-long tract along the Cambridge side of the Charles River, which was partially filled land.[29][30] The neoclassical "New Technology" campus was designed by William W. Bosworth[31] and funded largely by anonymous donations from a mysterious "Mr. Smith," who eight years after his first donation, was revealed as the industrialist George Eastman of Rochester, New York, who invented methods of film production and processing, and founded Eastman Kodak. Over these eight years, Eastman donated $20 million in cash and Kodak stock to MIT.[32] "
And digging deeper , Edwin H Land , Mr Poloroid himself , went to Harvard , and got himself a boulevard in Cambridge too.
Nevertheless , in offering directions , I will still consider it the MIT bridge , and Harvard can have the other one , although it is more specifically deemed , the Stadium bridge, not to jar anyone's preserves here.
Why it's called the Harvard Bridge
Or...
It's named after John Harvard, the man not the school. Just like the Longfellow is also named after the man, not the health club.
Please don't pass off that
Please don't pass off that false story as fact without a disclaimer.
You're right
It's a joke.
Always called it the Harvard Bridge
As an undergrad in the 80s, I walked the Smoot bridge daily to and from MIT. But given the horrid condition it was in, we happily associated it with Harvard rather than "The 'Tute."
The bridge on JFK Street is
The bridge on JFK Street is the Larz Anderson Bridge.
The bridge over JFK Street is
The bridge over JFK Street is actually the Anderson Memorial Bridge, paid for by Larz Anderson as a tribute to his father.