In the 1970s, the University was primed to build an immense graduate student housing complex in the Riverside neighborhood — until grassroots resistance led it to scrap the project altogether. Join Fifteen Minutes Staff Writers Henry N. Lear and Benjy Wall-Feng as they explore the story of the last time Harvard tried to expand into Cambridge.

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