Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Overseers decrying the "consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard was signed and mailed out. Two weeks later, the City Council decided after heated debate to contest the overlay ruling. "As of now, the overlay is in effect with six votes backing it," City Manager Sullivan said. A court challenge to the seventh vote provision began two weeks...
...situation," Preusser said. "I don't think they're out to shock us anymore," Sullivan added. "Every time they act contrary to the interests of Cambridge, we stand ready to confront them. The city has a great deal of police power. We have the right to take them to court anytime," he added...
...problems are numerous and identifiable; the solutions to them are not. For City Manager Sullivan, the politics of confrontation is one answer. "They are increasingly going to find themselves in court," Sullivan says. Others say a little bending on both sides would help the situation, "I don't agree that the University is 100 per cent to blame," Crane said recently. "Some city councilors, for political reasons, would rather see a war than a peace. They University is an easy target for them," he adds...
Harvard honored two judges in this year's ceremony: Richard Amni Cutter '22, an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and a former Harvard Overseer, and Bora Laskin, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada...
Cutter, who graduated from both the College and the Law School, is now president of the American Law Institute. His legal career included 16 years with the Massachusetts Supreme Court, where he served as an associate justice. Cutter has been especially active in Harvard activities, serving as director of the Harvard Alumni Association, secretary of his Law School class of 1929, president of the Law School Association and a member of two Board of Overseers visiting committees...