The Yale Daily News magazine tries to put the struggle for a just partnership between Yale and New Haven in a historical perspective: New Haven, William Pardee explained, was facing the challenges of the "modern city." Its streets were dirty. As a growing city in a changing economy, it needed new transportation systems, new developments, new ways of growing without becoming dirty or overcrowded. The city was facing challenges, Pardee told the Economic Club of New Haven on Nov. 9, 1911, and Yale was uniquely positioned to help the Elm City face those difficulties. But, Pardee said, while New Haven had been a "mother" to Yale, nurturing its development since its birth two centuries ago, the University had done little in return to contribute to the community's health and welfare. "Sometimes it seems that children grow so great they outgrow their love for their mother and look to the praises and honors of the outer world," said Pardee, a municipal reformer. "And, sometimes, I think the underlying sentiment of old mother New Haven is that Yale has forgotten home." In response, the University -- led by its secretary, Anson Phelps Stokes 1896 -- released a pamphlet emphasizing Yale's economic contributions to New Haven... Of course, it goes back long before that...