Mount Auburn-Bow Street Site Urged for New Library

Strong recommendations that the new undergraduate library have a Mt. Auburn Street location grew out of a conference Saturday evening between Murther E. Saise, chief of the West Cambridge City Planning Department, and a select group of students at McBride Hall.

"All logical considerations," Saise declared, "require that a building for the widest undergraduate use be situated in place of the present traffic island at the confluence of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets."

"University authorities, who have declared their intention to raze existing structures if necessary," he continued, "should have no qualms about destroying the monstrous edifice, often considered an insult to our local culture, which now squats upon the site."

Present Building in Disuse

Saise asserted that the Post Office had recently cease to deliver or pick up mail at that address as a result of the inactivity there. Nothing but "funny-men" have been seen about in recent months, he added.

Pointing to the obvious advantages of a location so close to the Houses, Saise suggested that the bell hanging in the belfry atop one end off the present architectural antiquity continue its function on the new library as a fire and general emergency warning.

He recommended, however, that the ill-begotten threskiornis perched on the ceramic dome be donated to the Cambridge Nature Walking Society. "That's one way to kill two Ibes with one stone."