Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Group seminars counted for credit last year included "The Knee." "Real Estate Broker Training, "Topics Relating to South Boston," "Dental Precentorship" and "New England Merchant's National Bank." Individual students created a photo essay on Mexico, invested their partents and their own savings in the stock market and studied "cabinetry...
Some members of the CUE argued against putting too many restrictions on independent work, calling it a necessary opportunity for students not served by Harvard's curriculum. Others, including Educational Resources Group member Peter M. Engel '81, argued that it was "a ludicrous reflection on a Harvard education...
...state and library officials lit up their cigars too early. Just when they thought the battle was over, a group of Cambridge residents launched a counter-offensive. The group charged that the library, because it contained both a museum and the archives, would bring more tourists, scholars and cars into already-congested Harvard Square. "A distinction was made as to the relative attractiveness of a museum versus a library," City Manager James Sullivan explains. "From the beginning, the community was divided on the issue." During the early 1970s, tensions within the community rose steadily until a major fight developed...
...hand was a group of citizens who said the new museum would destroy the Square, flooding it with hordes of tourists each day. Even now, representatives of this group--then loosely formed into the Committee to Protect the Environment (COPE)--defend their actions. City Councilor Francis H. Duehay, who says the museum would have brought between 40 and 60 tour buses into the Square every day, was one of these opponents. "Three million additional visitors a year was really an impossible burden for Harvard Square," he says...
Henry J. Steiner '51, professor of Law and an active member of a group of faculty members who shared a concern about the library's impact, says the group's single dominant concern was increased traffic. An influx of cars and people into the area, the group maintained, would block access to the Square, increase air pollution levels and overcrowd the area...