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Three members of the Leverett House Civic Improvement Society watched in agony yesterday as Cambridge workmen did dirt to their first big project.
On Monday the students--Thomas O. Nevison '51, Donald W. Ireland '52, and William V. H. Mason '51--altruistically built a thick gravel sidewalk over the swampland of upper Plympton Street, in front of the Harvard Auto Company.
Yesterday afternoon the City of Cambridge sent four men in a truck to tear down the temporary sidewalk and spread the gravel. Said the workmen: "It's dangerous. It's a menace."
Slosh Through Slush
Faced with another year of sloshing through mud ooze and runwater, the Society phoned the Cambridge Public Works Department and issued a formal complaint. Commissioner William R. McMenimen replied that he would look at the 12-foot strip this morning and decide whether to cover it with a stone-dust fill.
"If its a small job," the Commissioner said, "I'll tend to it myself.
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