Word: toomey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant communicated yesterday with John J. Toomey, Councilor-at-Large, regarding the strip of land for which the City had Council had asked the University...
Upon motion of Councilor-at-Large John J. Toomey, the Council passed a resolution asking the College to donate a strip of land on the northwest corner of the Yard which would be used in broadening the junction of Kirkland and Peabody Streets. The strip lies between Kirkland Street and Phillips Brooks House, and Peabody Street and Mower Hall...
Explaining his motion to the Council, Councilor Toomey said, "Due to the fact that the Fellows of Harvard University have decided to enter into a much better relationship with the city, I can foresee their willingness to sit down with city officials and deed this land...
Though the first to receive serious consideration by the Council, Toomey's proposal is the least ambitious of several plans of city councilors affecting University property. Some members of the Council would like to see the University give land to Cambridge which could be used as children's playgrounds...
Moreover, the University agreed that for property held on July 1, 1928, but which might thereafter be built on for "educational purposes," it would not claim its legal right of tax-exemption at a rate greater than 10 per cent a year. Under this agreement, which is the one Toomey wants amended, Harvard has paid about...