Word: allston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running battle between Harvard and the cities of Cambridge, Allston and Boston over land-purchase and land-use plans is still a heated one and will no doubt continue as long...
Since the middle sixties Harvard has vastly increased the amount of in-lieu-of tax payments it makes to Cambridge, Allston and Boston. Although the University still resists local pressure to pay by formula--a precedent that could deal a deadly blow to many non-profit institutions not quite as well-off as Harvard--the amounts Harvard is now paying are much more satisfactory to its three cities. And in Cambridge (where the tension with Harvard has been most acute) the University has assured city fathers that it will not make any non-essential land purchases outside specific boundaries...
Harvard in the last decade has begun to look more upon itself as a resident of Cambridge, Allston and Boston rather than as an oasis surrounded by them. Three years ago President Bok established the Office of Government and Community Affairs to deal with Harvard's outside relations. Although previous administrations had personnel and offices to deal with community relations, this was the first time that there was one office through which members of the community could go with any problems or questions. Financial Vice President Hale Champion, prior to joining the Bok Administration, worked as head of the Boston...
...Long Range Plan for Harvard University and Radcliffe College in Cambridge and Allston is not the first long range plan that Harvard has issued. In 1960 the University distributed an Inventory for Planning that outlined many of Harvard's future plans then on the horizon...
...Tempest, part of a repertory offering that will alternate all summer with Oscar Wilde's Salome, is still in previews at the Public Theater on Soldiers Field Road in Allston. Remember the Public is an outdoor theater, so this could be a very pleasant way to spend a hot summer's night...