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Certainly the creation of an International House like those in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago would be one solution to the problem of graduate housing. But such projects are expensive and politically difficult to achieve. Other remedies have been tried. In 1955 the Civic Unity Committee gave a tea for local landladies at Phillips Brooks House--lengthy discussion persuaded several women to change their discriminatory policy. The Congress on Racial Equality tries to establish test cases for the Massachusetts fair housing practices law. Various local organizations have expressed their view vocally--WCRB editorially on November 20, the Cambridge Fair...
...their unchanging histrionics belie a lack of genuine civic concern. Although the University has slowly carried out is own projects Iviz. Quincy House, the Towers, the (medical center), it has come to project a singular image on the community as a whole, an image indicating that Harvard is not really the driving force it considers itself in Cambridge city planning...
...motel caper, the University was directly concerned as an interest group and slightly less as a civic leader. It would have been decidedly beneficial to both city and University to have a large parking garage in Brattle Square. As an investment, particularly, it would not have hurt Harvard...
...another story with the office building on stilts. Although Harvard has no overt interests, no designs on the strip of land that Sullivan has chosen for his brainchild, it does and should have a strong, civic interest. What problems the building will or will not pose is irrelevant here. It is significant only that the project will alter the face of the Square considerably, and that Sullivan's suggestion came first...
...protect its own, if it is to keep its own house and doorstep clean, (if for no other reasons), the University must take the lead in developing not only the area surrounding it but also other parts of Cambridge. In civic affairs Harvard might take a good example from M.I.T. The new Technology Square development, covering about eight acres, represents a joint effort by MIT, an investment company (Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes) and Lever Brothers to develop an area primarily for industrial purposes. MIT went into the project as an investor, not as an academic institution...