Word: underpass
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Harvard money in ghettoes--Calkins says (meanacingly) money would have to be cut from somewhere else--like the Afro-American Studies Department dollar underpass...
...inferior position of the Masters vis-a-vis the administration was illustrated in the HUC-COH debate on seating. Master Smithies asked us why we wanted seating on the Committee. We replied that we wanted to influence the important decisions: funding a new athletic building, constructing the underpass, tenth house, tuition hikes, investment and endowment decisions. Smithies was incredulous; "We're as interested as you are in changing these decisions, but you know they just can't be changed by us, that's all. Those decisions are made in the high-level stratosphere of the administration...
...announced last year that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had fallen into the "red." What that meant, really, was that the Faculty had spent more than the planners had decided it deserved. They had decided that the University's money could be better used elsewhere--like for the underpass, which cost $2 million...
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Further difficulties arose when sponsors of the Fair tried to reserve the Common for yesterday only to hear from the Cambridge City Father's that the grounds had already been allocated to the Polish American Citizens who plan to re-erect a plaque displaced during construction of the underpass. Fortunately the potential conflict never materialized and a compromise was worked out: the peaceniks would disrupt the Shabbos and the Poles the Sabbath...