Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven-member Corporation-- also known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College--are the legal owners of all of the University, its land, buildings, and investments. The Fellows stay in the background most of the time, and follow Bok's lead. Dissent at this level is a rarity, controversy almost unheard of. The only Corporation member to make a name for himself among students recently is Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the Corporation front man for the South AFrica controversy...
...Harvard's extensive real estate holding in Cambridge, however, that cause the real town-gown friction. The University owns so much land that last year it created its own real estate company. Harvard's behavior as a landlord, however, has not been particularly exemplary. The University tried to use its rights as a large real estate holder (in the Square over 20 per cent) to block a proposal to limit the height of buildings in Harvard Square. The city filed a lawsuit challenging Harvard's move...
When the old wolves know they are about to die, they sneak back into the woods and find their territory, the land that is especially theirs. To find my bed, I coped with an elevator wall, and the carpeted interior of my dormitory which made loud noises when I walked upon it. The walls of my room swirled around and around, dilating and breathing, their bright colors and strange poster faces lulling my consciousness--the face of Jim Morrison peered in on me from an album cover, still and refracted, inviting me to his morbid dance with a grim smile...
...short, Harvard Square is a paradise on earth, a promised land for the collegian, a magnet for Wellesley women. But a day will come when you will want to leave the Square. After all, it is only six streets wide and three deep, and if you don't want to feel like a cop walking a beat, you can only stroll for a half hour...
David Vickery, assistant Cambridge city manager for community development, said yesterday the city might still take the parcel of land by eminent domain to build a public garage to ease the Harvard Square parking shortage, a plan Cambridge has considered for a few years...