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...hurdles as they tried to park their cars, including the ever-present threats of tickets and towings, and a 1930 city ordinance that prohibited overnight parking on public roads.HELL ON WHEELSThe students who had cars found resourceful ways to deal with Cambridge authorities. In December 1955, City Councillor Marcus Morton called for what The Crimson labeled a “full-scale attack” against violators, and in July 1956, Cambridge police officers in Harvard Square wrote 5,000 parking tickets in two weeks, issuing so many that their press ran dry and additional orders of tickets...
...most members had come to accept parietals as a way of life, marking a shift from the post-World War II period. War veterans who returned to Harvard as undergraduates, hardened from years of fighting, were much older and less likely to accept the parietal rules, according to Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University.” But the matriculation of the Class of 1956 saw a more compliant student body. “The tone of the school was not as frivolous as it had been...
...budget. Pusey considered his task as president to make Harvard “an academically stronger University by making it a more affluent one,” according to a 2001 book about the University’s history, “Making Harvard Modern,” by Morton and Phyllis Keller.BIG-BUDGET BEGINNINGSThe Class of 1956 witnessed only the very beginnings of Pusey’s ambitious fundraising drive—an effort that included the Program for Harvard College (PHC), which raised over $80 million, the equivalent of $575 million today.Though not formally announced until...
...talk to fellow restaurateurs because I thought they'd steal my recipes," says Dine Originals president Don Luria. But hard knocks have turned indie rivals into sympathetic allies. Skyrocketing food, energy and health-care costs have cut into independents' bottom line, while national chains, from Applebee's to Morton's, have been expanding at every price level at the expense of the joint on the corner. According to the NPD Group, traffic share for major and small chains has grown to 69% of overall restaurant visits this year, having gained 1 percentage point a year for the past five years...
...past is my past. My future is in America,” he said of his thoughts at the time. Students planned a rally and a concert in Sanders Theatre to raise over $10,000 that the University would then match for additional scholarships, historian Morton Keller said yesterday. Keller and his wife Phyllis are the authors of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University.” In 1938, the Harvard Corporation established 20 scholarships of $500 for refugees who had fled Nazi Europe, according to the Kellers’ book. Still...