Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month, Harvard Real Estate, the University's property management arm, bought a condominium from one faculty member so that another professor could buy it days later. In so doing, Harvard breeched its 1975 promise not to purchase real estate outside its own self-imposed boundaries and revealed its unfortunate willingness to sacrifice its credibility with the Cambridge community for small, short lived gains...
That two communities as large and overlapping as Cambridge and Harvard should have their differences is unavoidable. That Harvard should increase those tensions unnecessarily simply to hand one faculty member an apartment is shameful...
...committee appointed to review Afro-American Studies (known as the McCree committee after its chairman) had highlighted this problem three years previously in 1972. The McCree report criticized the University's failure to appoint more than one tenured faculty member and recommended that it move quickly to bring the number of tenured faculty up to four...
...wasn't the first time, of course, that the SPH has faced charges of misappropriation of funds. Way back in 1975, when one-time SPH faculty member Dr. Phin Cohen charged Harvard officials with actively misusing federal research funds--and then told the NIH about it--the battle began. Then in May 1976, an NIH audit concluded that the school's department of Nutrition had overcharged the federal government by $132,000 and the agency told Harvard to give it back. The University concurred with the findings and returned the money in September 1976--in an effort...
Condominium has been a fighting word in Cambridge for years now, ever since the nationwide condo boom hit this crowded city. Developers, property-owners and some of the city's conservative leaders place condos on a par with apple pie and ice cream. Condo opponents, who include a five-member majority of the City Council, mention the converted apartments in a tone Cambridge usually reserves for incest and the New York Yankees...