Word: transients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last May, the CCA published a report entitled "Harvard and Housing in Cambridge." In the report, Harvard was held responsible for the present housing crisis and for contributing to the continuing changes in character in Cambridge. They blamed Harvard's real estate policy for creating a community of transient students and professionals, and suggested that the University build a mixture of student, faculty and community housing...
...Square area has been drifting steadily away from the concept of community Local shopowners and businessmen have abandoned the Square in the face of skyrocketing rents and stepped-up insurance rates. In their stead have come more restauranteurs, ice cream vendors and bankers--all of whom cater to a transient population like that which swarms any tourist stopover of the Library's stature. Moreover, ownership of non-Harvard property around the Square has transferred from the hands of several local residents and estates to those of a scarce few who put profit and volume above concern for Cambridge residents...
...large increase in the student and transient population in Cambridge has aggravated another problem--crime. Cambridge's densely populated, high turnover areas of young people attract burglars from all over the Boston area. Robbers find the-high quality stereos or TVs most young people own easy to make off with in this area where few people know their neighbors. George Powers, planning and research officer for the Cambridge City Police, said that burglaries are much less frequent in both the working class communities of East and North Cambridge and in the wealthy Brattle St. area. "These are stable, family communities...
Conductor Gerald Moshell and all personnel of the orchestra are to be commended for their strong musical integrity. None of the music presented Thursday evening was, in the traditional sense, fun to play or conduct, as are the massive 19th century war-horses usually undertaken by transient orchestras comprised of widely diverse individual talents. Equally commendable is the fact that there was only one ringer in the group (as it happened, the Summer School just didn't attract a tuba player this year). And while the quality of performance was often less than ideal (although it was never distressingly...
Almost universally, the delegates, campaign workers, demonstrators and media who have arrived here in the last week are awed by the superficiality of this transient city where the median age of permanent residents is sixty-five. Those who have been here for any length of time were plain bored by yesterday...