Word: nickerson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporation members who have the University's final authority in housing matters-George F. Bennett '33 and Albert L. Nickerson '33-then stepped out of Commencement ceremonies with the demonstrators to discuss their original-demand; that Harvard set aside the Treeland site adjoining Peabody Terrace for low-income housing...
...Nickerson-in one of his rare public appearances at Harvard-arrived outside Grays Hall to talk with the demonstrators after Mrs, Graham told Edward S. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, that the group intended to stay. "We've confronted you [Gruson] several times. We want the Corporation members who can give us their John Hancock." she said...
...Nickerson then chatted with several of the group and discussed the University's housing program with them. "We realize that in the Riverside area you have to take stronger impact of Harvard expansion than the rest of the community. We don't have any firm deals" for low-cost housing in Riverside, he said, "but we do have some possibilities...
After the group refused an offer to meet privately with George F. Bennett '33, Treasurer of the University, and Albert L. Nickerson '33, member of the Corporation, President Pusey ordered the microphones turned on for two minutes...
...Graham told the crowd, "We will not be pushed out of our homes. We asked to meet with the Corporation yesterday and they refused even to discuss it." Nickerson, Bennett, and the residents' group then filed off the stage and went to Massachusetts Hall...