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...campus in Allston??the “planning assumptions” for which Summers announced in October—will consist of some science facilities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Graduate School of Education, the School of Public Health and potentially undergraduate housing...
...expansion and the less-than-healthy tension between Cambridge and our university. As we know, the Quad is no longer enough to satiate the Harvard housing monster, and since those ungrateful commie Cantabrigians won’t yield any land, the University may need to exile students to Allston??all the way across the Charles. But students won’t want to be “rivered” any more than they want to be “Quadded.” Cambridge ought to just get out of the way of progress...
...classroom is familiar territory for Summers, who received tenure at Harvard in 1983 at the then-unprecedented age of 28. But Summers left Harvard’s halls behind yesterday—spending five hours teaching classes and meeting with teachers at the Jackson-Mann Elementary School in Allston??as part of the Boston Plan for Excellence’s Principal For A Day program. About 600 Kindergarten through 5th-grade students from 26 different countries attend the school...
Rapier said that with the prospect of massive development in Allston??which will cost billions of dollars—Harvard will be working toward soliciting those kinds of massive individual donations...
Given the obstacles the administration must overcome to build anything in Allston??high costs, difficult town/gown negotiations and the moving pre-existing athletic facilities—Quadlings will stay put for at least another decade. But until the move, the tug of war between short-term appeasement of Quad residents and the long-term relocation of housing will be a major drain on the College’s administrative energy—and its coffers...