Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until 1983, the city paid municipal employees to set up a privately owned nativity scene on the Cambridge Common--amid increasing controversy...
...that year, Sullivan says he asked for an opinion about it from the City Solicitor, who responded that the sponsoring of a religious scene on city property was "unconstitutional." From then on, the city no longer sponsored a nativity scene in the common...
...Sullivan says he was instrumental in the passage of a city ordinance that declared "a portion of the Cambridge Common to be a public forum for anyone who would like to display [holiday scenes]." He proposed the measure as a compromise after Councillor Thomas W. Danehy called on the Council to sponsor the Christian display...
Sullivan says Posner asked for the Council's permission to erect the menorah in Harvard Square because he was "not dealing with the Common, so additional authorization was needed." Posner said he wanted to light the candles near Out of Town News because more people would see them there than on the Common...
...final club. The anti-final club stories make titilating reading, but no one has yet been willing or able to accuse anyone of anything. It is somehow enough to accuse "the clubs" of such things, or slyly to insinuate that such abuses are "common knowledge." The collective trial and sentencing of club members in the court of campus opinion has left us a bit baffled. Critics of the clubs have adopted the desperate tactic of deliberately and viciously slandering the clubs in order to tarnish their reputation and dissuade potential members from joining. It doesn't matter to them...