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...Johnson children-whose parents are black welfare recipients from the predominantly low-income neighborhood surrounding the Arboretum-were the second and third children to drown in the pond-known locally variously as "Muddy Pond," the Muddies," and "that smelly mudhole"-in 18 years. When a nine-year-old boy drowned in the pond in 1953, the local residents circulated a petition asking Harvard to fill in the pond. Over 300 signatures were collected on the petition before it was turned over to Harvard, but no action was ever taken...
...latest drownings that Harvard's liability in the event of a suit was slight, and, at first, the University did not seem eager to respond to the latest drownings. Henry H. Cutler, Harvard Real Estate Manager, told reporters on the Monday following the drownings that filling in the pond-or putting a fence around the lot-would be "pretty stupid...
...Steiner said yesterday. however, that Harvard representatives had begun considering some action to reduce the danger of drowning in the pond on Monday following the drownings...
...conducted a small campaign during the last two weeks of school to force Harvard to fill in the muddy pond. At one SDS demonstration
...Holyoke Center, demonstrators encountered Sargent Kennedy 28, secretary to the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, coming out of the Cambridge Trust Co. A group of demonstrators followed Kennedy from the bank to the Faculty Club, repeatedly asking him why Harvard had not filled in the Pond...