To the Editors of the Crimson:
We invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed.
In the editorials and communications which you have published, opposing the erection of the University Club at Quincy and Harvard streets, there has been no suggestion as to a more desirable and, at the same time, possible site. To tear down Dane Hall, College House or Wadsworth House is highly impracticable. In Dane Hall are the Bursar's offices and the Co-operative Society's rooms. From the stores on the first floor of College House the University receives a large annual rent, and, consequently, there is a strong economic reason why the building ought not to be destroyed in order to afford a site for a club which will pay only a nominal rent. As to Wadsworth House,-- historical associations so surround it and the ground it is on, that a proposal to replace the old building with the new club would not be considered. Adjoining Wadsworth House on the east is ground which is as centrally located as any of the "impossible" sites that have been proposed. It is about equally distant from the dormitories in the Yard and the private halls and houses in and near Mt. Auburn street; it is close to Gore Hall Library and the Boylston Laboratory and it is well within, what has been called, the club centre. What more desirable site for the University Club could there be than this? 1901.
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