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Harvard's liability for the drowning deaths of two children last Saturday at a University-owned pond in Jamaica Plain appears slight. unless a case can be built charging Harvard with gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct in not dealing with known hazards of the land...
Harold Kaitz, a Boston casualty claims lawyer, said last night that Harvard may be liable if the University "had knowledge of a history of children in the neighborhood being attracted [to the pond] and was aware that the probability of attraction is increased by experience...
...fact that a drowning occurred in the same pond 18 years ago, and that several near-drowning have been reported there in the last decade, could substantiate a charge of gross negligence on the University's part, Kaitz said...
...That place is a death hole for little kids," said Geneva Boykin, aunt of Margaret and Clyde Johnson, the two children who drowned last Saturday in a Harvard-owned pond in Jamaica Plain...
...pond. known to local residents as "the muddies." is an apparently abandoned piece of property adjacent to Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. Residents in the area have had a high opinion of Harvard in the past, since the Arboretum, which is free to the public, provides a play area for children who have no other place...