Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply have a housing problem in this city. We have a markedly abnormal real estate market, influenced by forces unique to Cambridge. We have intense pressure on existing housing, and inflation in the price of it. We have a relatively inactive new construction market, in spite of intense demand. Part of the reason for this is that Cambridge is already a densely developed city, Scarcity and cost of land on which to expand the supply of housing is a constant barrier. We have families forced to leave Cambridge, or to tolerate poor housing conditions at continually increasing rents, because they...
...totally successful in revitalizing our public housing program, only part of the job will be done. The two universities which have done so much to make Cambridge what it is--both good and bad--have a special responsibility. It is futile to argue much longer about how much or which parts of the pressures on the housing market are generated by students, faculty, staff and spin-off activities traceable to Harvard and MIT. The point is not whether the response of the universities will be proportional to the degree to which they are responsible for the problem. The question...
...announce publicly a policy, of no future acquisition of residential property in Cambridge. They should pledge maximum development of land now held in institutional ownership before other, nonresidential, land is acquired. Clearly, corporation with endowments in the hundreds of millions of dollars do not need Cambridge real estate as part of their investment portfolio. They should be prepared to accept the costs of maintaining rents at moderate levels, in housing units they have already acquired for future development, as a cost of doing business...
...most part, the Harvard students live off-campus in the summer--inhabiting apartments scattered over Greater Boston. Some do reside on-campus, but not in the Yard with the "summies." Instead, on-campus Harvard students stay in the Houses, enjoying, in some cases, the "Gin and Tonic Societies" which several Houses sponsor to satisfy the souls of House members standed in Cambridge during the summer...
Despite such special programs and what appears to be an increasing seriousness on the part of the students, the Summer School still remains a most relaxed way to come to Harvard, if only for two months. It is perhaps symptomatic that the second paragraph of the Harvard News Office release describing the 1969 session read as follows...