Word: durants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alternative, Claflin and Durant were authorized by the University to suggest that Harvard itself go into the real estate business by constructing permanent homes and leasing them on its own authority...
Meeting in an atmosphere of interested cordiality, Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02 and Treasurer William H. Claflin, Jr. '15, proposed to the Cambridge City Council housing subcommittee at City Hall yesterday afternoon two ways of using University property to relieve the city's housing shortage...
...Durant and Claflin produced sketches to show exactly how the University would convert the land of the Botanical Gardens and the Observatory to housing use under the second plan. They promised to begin work as soon as possible on four-family dwellings or other units, which they estimated would permit the Botanical grounds to hold 28 families and the Observatory about 14 more, if the Council okayed that plan
...protest, issued on the strength of a petition signed by 120 men, paved the way for discussions by the committee with Westcott and Aldrich Durant, business manager of the University, on the questions of price of meals, quality of food purchased, and expertness of preparation...
...quality of the food has been maintained at a high level nevertheless, Durant and Westcott claimed, although Durant said that a "really bang-up job" could be done for a higher price. The committee, however, sees no need to "sacrifice our present rates, which are equitable for all incomes, in order to cater to luxury tastes...