Me too, I went there about a week ago. First time for a couple of years. Extremely disappointed that the main floor of the main entrance is now mostly bullshit sweatshirts and Harvard memorabilia instead of books. A sad sign of the Times that Harvards own flagship store is selling image rather than knowledge.
You’re not cynical enough. It’s not even for parents of Harvard students. It’s people who are just tourists for the idea of Harvard. All this sick civilization has is the sign, we’ve long forsaken the thing signified.
What's going in there? Still weird to see the out of town news gone. Was a staple of the square.
That's the kiosk in which I used to ride up the escalator from the trolley car/bus tunnel back in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Kind of weird to see its current state, but at least nicely preserved and refurbished.
www.bostonglobe.com
True. It was the only place you could walk and see, sitting at an outdoor cafe, a professorial character with beard, beret, tweed jacket with elbow patches, smoking a pipe and sipping his coffee while reading a student's essay. (Actual eye-witness from the early 70's). Delightful stereotypes came alive at every turn.
