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Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, wants the College to move to Peterborough, N.H. But to forestall the Old Grad with a vested interest in President Eliot's elms and the brick sidewalks on Garden St., he doesn't want the move to take place for the next 100 years...
...matter of simple necessity," Cherington says. "It is becoming increasingly difficult for the University to continue in Cambridge. Traffic problems and lack of desirable land for expansion will only worsen over the years," he said...
...Cherington, an expert in transportation and government regulation of industry, said that a rural area with adequate means of access would be the best location for the academic community of the future. Peterborough, he said, "has a lot of fine, vacant land. And it will be closer to New York by automobile," he said, "particularly when they get this new Buck Rodgers highway...
...Cherington foresaw possible trouble in moving the University's charter out of Massachusetts. "In that case we could go out to the Worcester hills--west of the Connecticut River--where there is also a lot of good vacant land...
...Cherington criticized the petition of 89 railroad presidents asking the I.C.C. to authorize higher fares in the area north of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi. "This unreasonable plan proves the need for government ownership of railroads," he commented...