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Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci moved yesterday that Harvard transfer the name from square to mall. Vellucci knew Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Affairs, was in the audience prepared to grant the request immediately for Harvard...
However, Mayor Daniel J. Hayes, facing a heavy schedule for the session, quickly cut discussion on the subject and moved on to new business before Vellucci could call Whitlock out of his seat...
Outside the chamber, Whitlock said that Harvard will honor Vellucci's request despite the lack of a public announcement. He noted that the University will give the mall to the City after completion, and Cambridge could have named it for Kosciuszko then if Harvard had refused...
...existence of Whitlock's job at all says a lot about how the University Administration looks at the City. First, it is a clear indication that in the mid-fifties, when Whitlock took over, there was dissatisfaction with town-gown relations and a desire to pay more attention to the City. That desire still exists and so does the motivation that prompted...
...Harvard officials think, lie in the coincidence of many different, but related conflicts: Yankee-Irish, rich-poor, and educated-uneducated. But Harvard's dislike for this state of affairs has not warped its good sense: the University must survive in this place, and thus the need for someone like Whitlock...