Word: council
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...first blind student to go through Harvard, although he does predate the reading rooms in the basement of Emerson. They were finished in 1966, partially due to a study Hal did for the now defunct Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs. Hal was an English major, and lived in Adams House. He prefers using readers to Braille books or tapes; for himself, he finds readers faster and more flexible, and it is also a way of meeting new people -- a perennial problem for the blind. Harvard makes no special dispensation as to the science requirement. Hal took...
...miltant student violence-ridden strike for a vicious power-grab," Hayakawa cannily announced that under state college rules, any teacher who missed classes for five consecutive days "automatically resigned." But Hayakawa soon lost the upper hand when the teachers' strike received some unexpected backing. The San Francisco area Labor Council voted to approve the teachers' strike and forbade its members from crossing the picket line. Many of the labor leaders had led local Wallace forces during the Presidential campaign, and they were quick to point out that their move was "in no way supporting the demands of students protestors...
Miss Gill testified before the Council that tenants in Harvard-owned housing have been afraid to complain about neglect, fearing that Harvard would raise the rent or destroy the building. "The men who run these things are strict businessmen," she said...
...Does it take a murder to make Harvard obey the law?," Miss Gill asked last night in a meeting of the Cambridge City Council. "We tried to request the locks from Henry H. Cutler, Harvard's Manager for Taxes, Insurance, and Real Estate, but he told me with a smirk that 'we can't make improvements if we don't get more money out of you people.' We tried to see President Pusey and the Fellows of Harvard, but they talk to no one except themselves...
...City Council passed a resolution last night calling for the City Manager to enforce the Health and Housing codes which have been "flagrently violated." In introducing the order Councilor Barbara Ackermann said 'with all the problems that Harvard brings to this community, it is the least they can do to be lawabiding landlords. A girl is dead, and I do not say she would be alive today if there had been a lock on her door, but there is strong reason to believe that...