Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other areas where the interests of Harvard and those of Cambridge have clashed include University expansion into the surrounding community and the burden Harvard's tax-exempt status places on the rest of the city. In both cases, a majority on the council charges Harvard with arrogance--a "longstanding, inbred arrogance," according to one city councilor. The add that the University has little feeling for the people their decisions affect. "The place doesn't talk with a coherent voice," Sullivan says. "The community relations people are people of good will and they understand the ramifications of Harvard's actions--they...
...sticky. Cambridge plays host not only to Harvard, but also to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a number of smaller schools--as a result 52 per cent of Cambridge land is tax-exempt. Meanwhile, Cambridge provides the universities with public services--water, fire protection, sewers and the rest. In return, Harvard makes payments in-lieu-of-taxes. They increased the amount paid to the city each year in 1979, but tenant lawyer Sullivan estimates that Harvard still pays only about 25 per cent of what it would in taxes. "Harvard recently has been taking more property...
...middle of the month signified the end for most students, who enjoyed the rest of December to the hilt--knowing what was in store for them in January...
...largely pro forma gesture, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) ended the different sex ratios at Harvard's Houses, and after some soul-searching the Peabody Museum sold off the 106-painting Inman collection for money to conserve better the rest of its collection...
...elements. First, a somewhat truculent sense of equity leads people to insist, "I will sacrifice, if necessary, but I'll be damned if I'll be the first." That leads to a paralysis of selfishness in which each citizen assumes the bad faith of all the rest...