Word: lewises
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Under the State Zoning Enabling Act, the University, as an educational institution, now qualifies identically with religious and charitable organizations in exemption from city zoning ordinances, according to William H. Lewis, Jr. '26.
Speaking to the Council on the Combined Charities Drive, Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the Drive Committee, pointed out the need for a strong campaign in the Yard and suggested a goal of $15,000. Albert L. Jacobs '61, secretary of the Harvard Student Council, announced that he...
Rome, in finding for the Church, sustained the "broad" interpretation of the Act set forth in Lewis' recommendations. Residents of the area near Sparks and Brattle Sts., where the Church had planned to build 22 feet above the 35-foot limit, had hoped for a strict reading of the law...
The University favors the broad interpretation, a member of its law firm said, because such a decision means that Harvard can build as high as it wishes on any of its own land. The decision makes other physical restrictions equally invalid, Lewis said, and prevents Cambridge from establishing zoning laws...
If the Yard experts were doing any better than the local police, they were keeping mum. Said Detective Superintendent Richard Lewis bravely: "We are putting the jigsaw puzzle together." Bermuda locked its doors and waited in fear for the next new moon on October 31.