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Article: Liberal establishment on Tory Row. (Commonwealth Day School controversy)
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- December 31, 1989
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Liberal Establishment on Tory Row
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--Number 113 Brattle Street is a large white gabled house with green shutters and leaded glass around the doors. It stands surrounded by million-dollar houses in the middle of an historic neighborhood just west of Harvard Square. In fact, its next-door neighbor is a national landmark, and the home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
But the 150 or so demonstrators who, one evening a few weeks ago, marched from Harvard Square to the Brattle Street house in a candlelight procession might have recalled the street's old nickname. In the days after its wealthy residents flet to Canada at the start of the ...