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...silent. But life must go on. To borrow a newspaperman's phrase, Don't cry over spilt milk, it might have been scotch." And so for the last few months Cantabridgians have their way to the Out of Town newsstand in the Square and there, amidst the fumes of MTA busses, have sought to compensate their gnawing sense of loss...
...real necessity--just habit. I might even, some day, become Ralph Bunche or, in forty years, Bobby Kennedy. But then, I'll still be nigger to the man on the train. Yes, it's funny, pathetically funny on Commencement night, after the exercises, when I climb back onto the MTA and ride back into the ghetto, I'll still be nigger to the man across the aisle. And the liberals still won't understand. They'll still be submerged in their "Negro problem," not realizing that the habit of seeing me--saying Negro--and hearing, way down deep, NIGGER--instead...
President Pusey indicated yesterday that the University would proceed with the construction of a tenth House in the near future whether or not it obtains possession of the Bennett St. MTA yards...
Pusey said that the University could not obtain full possession of the yards for at least two years--it will be that long before the MTA completes the transferal of its switching and storing facilities--indicating that if the property had not been sold to Harvard within that time the University would build elsewhere...
Even if the University proceeds with plans for the tenth House, it may be 18 months before it learns the fate of the MTA yards. Present indications are that it will take that long for the MTA trustees to act on the bids which were opened last December...