Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site nbires.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!nbires!bob From: bob@nbires.UUCP (Bob Bruck) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.jokes Subject: Re: Hahvahd Bridge Message-ID: <454@nbires.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 16:31:31 EDT Article-I.D.: nbires.454 Posted: Thu Aug 8 16:31:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 03:53:53 EDT References: <245@frog.UUCP> <1830@aecom.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 29 Xref: linus net.politics:9687 net.jokes:11622 > > > (The Harvard Bridge crosses the Charles River between Harvard Square and > > > one of the roughest sections of Boston.) > > > No, that bridge between Harvard Square and Allston is the Anderson > Bridge. > The Harvard Bridge actually runs right next to MIT (between MIT and > the Back Bay) > Having the bridge between their campus and their fraternities named > after "the small liberal arts college down the road" has driven those > "trade school~ students crazy for generations, and with alarming regularity > they wage a guerilla war to have the bridge renamed for a 'Richard S. Smoot,' > who was rolled across the bridge sometime around the turn of the century. The story I heard in my Undergrad days was that when the highway department decided to put the bridge in they couldn't decide whether to name it the MIT Bridge or the Harvard Bridge so they asked each school to write a summary of why they should name the bridge after their school. Well, Harvard wrote this long discourse on how Harvard was the oldest college in the nation and deserves the honor of having the bridge named after it. MIT, after looking at the engineering plans for the bridge, wrote this long discourse on why they should name the bridge after Harvard... (It seemed funny to me at the time after driving over that bumpy old bridge enough times to visit B.U.:-) Bob Bruck (hao | allegra | ...)!nbires!bob