But Lynch says he does not wish to attack Harvard on Harvard's qualities; rather he has a strong hatred of what he believes to be Communist's infiltration in educational institutions.

Lynch readily admits that he has nothing against the University. However, he says he is worried about the "parlor pink professors" who he claims are corrupting "the minds of students with red propaganda." But he thinks the student body is composed of "fine boys"; Lynch was very pleased, he said, with the students' reception of his speech during his debate one week ago with Arthur M. Schlesinger '38, associate professor of History, on "How to combat Communism in the United States."

Fresh Air

Lynch has been in Cambridge politics for 30 years, but throughout these years he has had and desires to have little to do with the University. He says, "Whenever I go from North Cambridge to City Hall, I'm always in a hurry to get back . . . the air is better up here."

The late City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan, one of the most colorful men in Cambridge politics, also seemed to take exception to a King's attitude toward Harvard. But "Mickey the Dude," as he was called in his ward, was well-liked by many students and faculty members.

He had his troubles with Harvard. Once, he arrived in the middle of a Square riot. Realizing that this was a good chance for publicity, he had his eyes blackened with charcoal by a student. Then he called over photographers from the press wire services and showed them his "eyes which were blackend by a Harvard student." The following day newspapers throughout the nation picked up the picture of Mickey Sullivan with "the blackeyes which rioting Harvard students inflicted."

Another time, Sullivan thought that all statues should go into the war time scrap drive-works of art included. He then introduced an order in the City Council demanding that the bronze statues in the Germanic Museum he seized and melted into scrap. He sincerely thought he was helping the war effort by this order, but he felt too that statues of German heroes should be melted anyway.

Bronze Coated

However, somebody tipped the Council off that the statues were just plaster coated with bronze. Mickey's order never got to a vote, but it gave him good press publicity.

Sullivan was well-liked in his ward; there are many stories of the times when the indominitable little Councilor got up in the middle of the night to aid a constituent. His attacks on Harvard were purely superficial: he knew all the members of the Porcellian Club by their first names and he had a strong friendship with several important members of the faculty. He maintained a "midnight table" for himself and his friends at the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria. Most of the time, these "friends" were students.

There are a number of reasons why City Councillors and other vote-getters see fit to attack Harvard every now and then. Obviously they think that their jibes at the University will get them more votes on election day.

City Councillor Joseph E. Deguglielmo '29, adds: "I don't think that anyone gets a single vote from that kind of attack. Of course," he continues, "in the mentality and make-up of some men there is the feeling that they should go after the 'rich boys' at Harvard, and unthinking people who have never had contact with the University might tend to feel the same way."

Tax Controversy

Deguglielmo points up the tax question, explaining, "If Harvard paid full taxes the average Cambridge citizen's bill would be cut in half. But, of course, that would bankrupt the University. Take a look at Harvard Square; how much of that would be there if Harvard were not? Most people realize this."

A former mayor of Cambridge, Michael J. Neville, agrees: "The great majority of the citizens like to have Harvard here." Neville stopped the Law School Forum from presenting Harold Laski in Rindge Technical High School auditorium in 1948. His argument then and now was, "If Harvard wanted him to speak let Harvard find a place for him to speak."

Speaking of his own terms of office, Neville states, "Harvard was always ready and willing to help us, and we have been willing to give them a hand there." He pointed out how the city aided, by changinging its zoning laws and other ordinances when Harvard wanted to construct the Botanical Gardens housing project two years ago. Neville himself gave a lecture in a government course here last year.

If the present trend toward better liaison and overall relationship continues, Harvard and Cambridge will be more than partners in years to come, they will be friends. That has been the general attitude of city and college officials recently.

More specifically, Manager Atkinson says, "Unquestionably it costs this city a great deal to have Harvard here, but there is no way of telling what the town would be without the University, or what would replace it."

Fair Trade

Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, likes to tell about the time that the University made a deal with the city back in the thirties to trade the land where Lincoln Square fire station now stands for the property on which Littauer was built. Lincoln Square is now the center of all fire operations in Cambridge; its station contains the city's main fire switchboard. Littauer is, of course, the headquarters of the School of Public Administration. Cooperation paid off then. And two shrewd traders were bound to learn the lesson.