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...fact that more than 200 of the city's most prominent individuals--including several prominent Harvard professors--had lent their signatures to the campaign to force Commonwealth Day out of the city did nothing to help matters...
...Commonwealth Day originally arrived in Cambridge in the spring of 1988. after buying the historic property at 113 Brattle St. While the building had been used for a school for early 50 years, its most recent occupant was the predominately white New Preparatory School...
...objected to New Preperatory, or any of its predecessors, but Commonwealth Day was not so lucky. Only days after school officials began to move furniture and equipment into the building, they were slapped with a cease-and-desist order--requested by Arthur Brooks, a next-door-neighbor with several influential connections in the city...
Over the course of the summer, the school had to contend with a number of similar hassles--including a five-week period in which the city stopped all trash pickups at the newly-acquired property. And although Commonwealth Day requested--and received--permission from the city to run a kindergarten in the building, it ran into immediate opposition from Brooks and other neighborhood resident when it applied for a special permit to run an elementary school...
Petitions said they objected to Commonwealth Day because it would create traffic tie-ups and safety problems with the daily dropping off and picking up of children...