Word: documention
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Last Monday, the city and its five universities and colleges released their report on town-gown relations. The groundbreaking document calls for greater communication between Cambridge and its universities and easier access to University resources for city residents...
...member task force of city officials and delegates from Harvard, MIT, Cambridge College, Lesley College and the Episcopal Divinity School which created the document--the now disbanded Mayor's Committee on University-Community Relations--is possibly the first such group in the nation, says John Shattuck, committee member and Harvard vice-president for government, community and public affairs...
...Such assistance would be recognition of the benefits, fiscal and otherwise, that are provided by the universities to the state and nation, and of the significance to these educational institutions of the municipal services provided by their host communities," the document states...
...felt Cambridge's institutions of higher learning could be doing a great deal more by acting together," Shattuck said. "MIT, Harvard, and Lesley College will be asked to work much more closely under the terms of this document than they have been, in order to make Cambridge schools the very best in math and the sciences...
...Councillor William H. Walsh said the document's provisions allow the universities to get away with making insufficient payments to the city...