Word: gille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Master Gill concludes that those involved in the sit-in "have attacked the concept of reasoned discussion on which this university is founded and for which it exists. In this instance, their offense against the laws of the university is even more deeply an offense against its spirit." Master Gill expresses a principle which finds violence and offense against the law detrimental to the university community and contrary to the basic precepts of Harvard. For me, that is a principle which is difficult to disagree with. However, punishment would never be a problem if we could feel justified in exercising...
...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...
...Jesse L. Gill, chairman of the tenants union--made up of residents of Harvard owned housing--said last night that Harvard has not been a law-abiding land-lord. Miss Gill charged that Harvard University, as owner of the apartment building complex at 122 Mount Auburn Street, 2-4-6 University Road, and 6 Bennet Street, refused until last week to install locks on the front doors of the buildings...
...state law requiring such locks has been in effect since last April. Miss Gill complained that Harvard has still not installed locks on the apartment windows, which can easily be reached from the outside fire escapes...
...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...