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...carry a hefty price tag. In 1959, Harvard offered to pay around $4 million, or the equivalent of $5 per square foot, plus an additional $1 million for the property. University officials said at the time that the extra million dollars—the equivalent of $7 million today??was intended to help the MTA relocate its switching yards, which was required in order for the transportation authority to sell its land.There was some concern that the University would not actually be able to pay the amount it had promsed, according to Bruce L. Paisner...
...Times for inducing hissing at Harvard. “We had gone expecting all positive things and we were quite disturbed,” Lockshin said. His brother, Richard A. Lockshin ’59 had similar recollections. “I remember it—and mention it today??as a turning point in attitudes of many U.S. citizens toward Cuba,” Richard A. Lockshin said. He even quit the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which he had been a member of, after Castro’s visit.A HAVANA HARBINGERCastro’s visit...
...their opposition to the bill.After months of discussion over the NDEA culminated in a flurry of reports by faculty bodies urging the University not to participate in the financial aid program, the Harvard Corporation voted to reject about 350,000 in federal funding—2.6 million in today??s dollars.Among the faculty, Law School Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe ’28 emerged as a vociferous critic of the act, asking during a debate with a supporter of the NDEA, “Can the federal government dictate the terms of education as the result...
FlyBy wandered over to the new location that opened a couple of weeks ago today??hear about our findings after the jump...
FlyBy wandered over to the new location that opened a couple of weeks ago today??hear about our findings after the jump...