And Harvard shuttle driver Timmy O'Sullivan, waiting near a shuttle at Currier House, says there seem to be more people at Harvard every year.
"Harvard needs to expand," O'Sullivan says. "It gets more and more kids every year. It never can never be too big."
The Peabody Syndrome
The dark, concrete buildings face toward campus. Out the proverbial back door, is the Riverside neighborhood, one of Cambridge's most low-income areas.
Former Peabody Terrace resident Jaylaan N. Ahmad-Llewellyn '00 says the only negative recollection he has of local residents is teenagers who would occasionally harass residents walking into Peabody.
"But I think they probably would do this regardless of whether they were Harvard students or not," Ahmad-Llewellyn says. "Most Peabody residents don't go past these buildings."
Otherwise, the people who live, work and go to school in the area around Peabody Terrace seem to appreciate Harvard's presence and the economic advantages it brings to Cambridge.
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