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Somehow, I just wouldn't get all that excited about a 350th party in my honor if I were a Cantab living in working class East Cambridge or Riverside. Year after year, lots of headaches from drunken preppies parking their tailgates on my lawn for the Head of the Charles. Lots more tourists in my backyard for the Olympics. And the interminable Yale Game traffic jams...
Even when Harvard does try to do something constructive for Cambridge, it's usually more of the same old let-them-eat-cake mentality coming out of The Big H. This time around, it's 350th birthday cake...
...Harvard really wants to let Cambridge share in its 350th revelry, then the university should strive to make a substantive--rather than stylish--contribution to the local community...
...course, as a gesture of 350th good will, the university could always construct something on that site that would benefit both Harvard and Cambridge...
Without a doubt, the first 350 years weren't exactly the smoothest between Harvard and Cambridge. Wouldn't it be nice if Harvard decided to change its longstanding and well-known indifference toward the surrounding community with a little 350th beneficence...