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During the past decade, Harvard has cautiously ventured into the world of City government. It has done so largely through one man, Charles P. Whitlock. As assistant to the President for civic affairs, Whitlock has been Harvard's link to the City's patch-work politics. He attends meetings of the City Council and of many civic and neighborhood organizations. On almost all matters that involve Harvard and the City, he represents the University. But, more importantly, he has carefully cultivated the friendships of political and civic leaders...
When something bothers these men or they need something from Harvard, they go to Whitlock. Last winter, the daughter of one Cambridge City Councillor decided to study in Widener Library; she was asked to leave by library officials because she did not attend the University. In ten minutes, her father was on the phone protesting to Whitlock. When a fire destroyed a Cambridge Church, the congregation wanted to see if one of its pictures would be worth restoring. Church leaders called Mayor Daniel J. Hayes; Hayes called Whitlock, and Whitlock called Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts...
...Whitlock receives job requests and pleas for help in getting Cambridge youths into the College or graduate schools. In many of these instances, he acts just like many other people in and out of Cambridge politics: he provides information and directs his friends to the proper place in the Harvard bureaucracy...
...Whitlock has opened up lines of communication that never existed before," one City politician explains. The improved communications has combined with the University's larger size to yield some distinct benefits for both Harvard and the City's politicians. Explains one old-hand: "Politicians who used to be critical of Harvard and M.I.T. now spend a lot of their time perfecting their relations with the universities personnel directors to get jobs for their constituents." The dividends to Harvard are even greater...
...Harvard Administration feels more secure with the information Whitlock gathers and the friends he has made. In Whitlock they feel they have someone who can mollify the politicians and help smooth over differences; moreover--and just as important--they feel they have an "expert," someone who can offer them more than guess-work about different events in the City...