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...campus, Harry conveys Ruth to and from classes on a tandem bicycle, he in front and she in scholar's mortarboard and gown in the back. Harry has won little public admiration with his protective and often garrulous ways, dropping a parental curtain between Ruth and the journalists trailing the celebrity scholar. "Her father . . . never closes his mouth," wrote a frustrated London Daily Express reporter, and "clings to his priceless pearl like a limpet." Meanwhile, in Huddersfield, Sylvia manages a job as a computer consultant and programmer while teaching Rebecca, who finished high school last month at eleven...
...will not only serve students; Cambridge residents were among those assaulted in the rash of attacks two years ago. In cases of safety, the University and the larger community are intermeshed—both must take responsibility for protecting students and residents. We hope that a precedent for town-gown cooperation has been set here...
Upon entering the house—whose crowded atmosphere could be described as a cross between the annual Filene’s Basement wedding gown sale and a room party crashed by freshmen—DiPietro remarked, “You’d think they were giving ’em away...
Hill’s last-minute appeal of the construction permit—and the continued debates over architectural designs on Harvard’s other site—reveals a lingering bitterness among residents in a neighborhood whose history is fraught with town-gown tension...
Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan says the appeal should not be considered a sign that town-gown relations have taken a turn for the worse...