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From: gml@ssc-vax.UUCP (Gregory M Lobdell)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Hahvahd Bridge
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:29:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 13:29:31 1985
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> > (The Harvard Bridge crosses the Charles River between Harvard Square and
> > one of the roughest sections of Boston.)
> 
> Unless we are overly generous with the word "between", MIT
> is in Harvard Square and Back Bay is one of the roughest
> sections of Boston.

This may have been seen before (so if it has flame directly to me,
not via the newsgroup).

As the story goes, there was this new bridge across the Charles
River between Boston and Cambridge, or more specifically, Back Bay
and MIT.  The city planners had no idea what to name this new
bridge.  Thus it was proposed that a crew race between the MIT and
Harvard crews be held on the river and that the winner would name
the bridge.  The appointed day came and the race was run (rowed?)
and MIT was the victor.  Being engineers, the MIT men looked at the
design of the bridge and declared that the bridge should be called
the Harvard Bridge.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  This same bridge is now closed for reconstruction
after a bridge of simmilar design in Connecticut fell down, killing
a number of people.

Gregg Lobdell
MIT class of `85