Word: siting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the Cambridge community's antagonism towards a complex that the Kennedy family thought anybody would love to have in their neighborhood, despite the additional financial problems caused by the spit site, despite the inherent disadvantages of separating the two portions of the complex, the Kennedy Corporation's board of directors--made up predominantly of Harvard graduates--seems to bend over backwards to keep Harvard's options open...
After all, the alternative Columbia Point site is almost everything that any Kennedy Corporation director would want. There's plenty of room, more than adequate public transportation, strong community support from at least 40 Dorchester neighborhood groups, a university president who is campaigning for the whole complex much more actively than any Harvard administrator, and a site conducive to low initial construction costs. And most important, the corporation has enough money at hand right now to build the whole complex on the site...
...chairman of the board of directors, puts it, "We hope Harvard can put together a good package for the board meeting. Harvard has been doing everything it can, there hasn't been any criticism of Harvard at the directors' meeting." Black confesses to know little about the Columbia Point site or the Charlestown-Cambridge split package and says he defers to those who do most of the work, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and Smith, president of the corporation...
...there's a snag that will turn even the most inveterate Harvard supporters on the board against the split site proposal, it's probably in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Although one of the assistants to library architect I.M. Pei says that Building 36 is "an excellent site" with exciting shore-line possibilities, it is difficult to camouflage the building's and the Yard's most obvious flaws. Just the massive overhaul that is necessary to make Charlestown workable makes Harvard's trump card the lowest of its suit...
...that's an obstacle that Arthur M. Schlesinger '38, one of the corporation's most active members, is worried about most: whether Harvard could ever do enough to make the Charlestown site workable. Schlesinger says he feels that the archives could remain in Cambridge if Harvard would show that it's willing to put out to keep them there. "If Harvard were to show serious intent for putting something together," he says, "there would be a strong chance of the board's accepting it." But Schlesinger adds, "It's not clear to me that Harvard has done that...