Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans are still very indefinite. People in the area have little confidence that anything at all is being done to help them. They are ready to pack their bags and leave. If this were a government project instead of a private one the Affiliated Hospital would be required by law to provide relocation funds and help for the families. But Harvard is bound by no such law in this area...
...that the Corporation has "perpetual succession," so its members fill any vacancies themselves. It could choose anyone--students, faculty, Cambridge police--with consent of the Overseers, though traditionally it selects only Harvard College graduates (with the current exception of William L. Marbury, whose only Harvard degree is from the Law School...
...legislature has, however, placed a series of restrictions on members and electors of the Board of Overseers. Current law provides that "no member of the Corporation, and no officer of government or instruction in Harvard College, shall be eligible as an overseer, or entitled to vote in the election of overseers." There are no other restrictions on membership, but the franchise is granted only to Harvard degree-holders...
From 11:45 p.m. Wednesday until 1:45 a.m. yesterday, about 12 Faculty members adressed the 300 students and answered their questions. Albert M. Sacks, assistant dean of the Law School and member of the Committee on Grades, said the dialogue "was a very fine experience...
...decision to defer a vote on Afro's demands until next week should not obscure the Faculty's approval of the spirit of those demands. Tuesday's meeting is likely to approve the Afro position--unless classroom fracases have by then rendered the Faculty unwilling to consider anything but law and order. Faculty members are already extremely concerned about the prospect of extensive disruptions of classes, and there is little question that should such disruption materialize, the Faculty would feel itself compelled to drop all substantive issues and to support the Corporation in whatever measures that body felt...