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Even during his two-year tour as chancellor of the university, he retained an active interest in the university football team and converted a lot next to his house into a neighborhood playground...
...seven? "We chose them because they fit the only cars we could buy reasonably," a leader of the Rotary program disarmingly explains. Last fall the school installed a model traffic layout in one tots' classroom, and a half-acre complex of "streets" out on the playground. After the state police commissioner himself cut a ribbon to open the new highway, top Connecticut officials gravely watched as little Rockvillians played cops and rodders...
...University may exchange a portion of Observatory Hill for the Corporal Burns playground, a possible site for the proposed tenth House, according to Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for civic affairs...
With the acquisition of the playground, located at the corner of Memorial Drive and Flagg Street, the University would own the complete riverfront property from Dunster House to Western Avenue, Whitlock said. The Cambridge City Council, spurred on by Observatory residents, wants the University land for a new park and playground...
Although the University will not sell the Observatory land outright, Whitlock said, it is interested in exchanging it for the Burns playground. This playground riverfront area has long been considered as a second choice for the tenth House if the sale of the MTA's storage and switching yards along Boylston St. to the University fails to materialize...