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...proposals that have drawn the most interest from neighborhood residents are suggestions that Harvard offer full scholarships to the College to neighborhood children and that the University fund a private, charter, or magnet school in the area...
...draft of this table, entitled the “community benefits matrix,” was publicly presented last week, with ideas ranging from tutoring programs and a charter school to improved public housing and public parks. Some of the suggestions have understandably concerned members of the Harvard community, as they appear expensive and arbitrary. We share their concern—Harvard is not, and should not function as a philanthropic organization or a proxy city government. The matrix, however, is not a list of demands but rather a compilation of all the ideas that have been put forward...
Since its founding, Harvard has been an educational leader. Its 1650 charter broadly conceives its mission to include “the advancement of all good literature, arts, and sciences, [and] the advancement and education of youth in all manner of good literature, arts, and sciences.” From John Harvard’s library through today’s my.harvard.edu, the University has worked to create and spread knowledge, educating citizens within and outside its walls...
Back home, the Virginia Co. sputtered in wrath at the imprudence of the colonists in allowing themselves to be killed. A royal commission found the colony to be "weak and miserable," and the company's charter was revoked in 1624. From then on, its Governors would be appointed by the King...
...benefits called for by the task force also included access to the University’s shuttles and athletic facilities, subsidized daycare at the science complex, and, in the long term, the creation of a “private, charter, or magnet school sponsored by Harvard...