City Kills Plan to Widen Boylston, Receives Apology for Harvard Sign

City Councillor Walter J. Sullivan has wrung an apology from Harvard for the signs which currently advertise construction of the Cambridge St. underpass.

The signs claim that Harvard is building the underpass "for" the City of Cambridge. Sullivan, who saw the signs when they first went up last Wednesday, complained in an order before the Council Monday that the signs should say that Harvard and the City are building the underpass together.

But even before the Council unanimously passed Sullivan's order for a new sign. Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, apologized to Sullivan privately and told him new signs were on the way.

According to Sullivan, Whitlock said he had been "offended" and "shocked" when he saw the signs and had imme- diately ordered Harvard Buildings and Grounds to put new signs in their place. Those signs will say Harvard is building the underpass "in association with" Cambridge, Whitlock told Sullivan.

In his order, Sullivan pointed out that Cambridge is contributing the land for the $3.4 million underpass. Thus, Sullivan said, Cambridge was not receiving a present from Harvard, pure and simple, when it takes over the underpass upon its completion, probably in early 1968.

This is the second controversy between the Council and Harvard over the underpass. Last month, Whitlock agreed for Harvard that the underpass will be named after Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko the Polish hero of the American Revolution, to make up for the destruction of the square that bore his name