Word: thomases
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The informal talk follows four years of disputes between the University and residents of 9-13 Ware St., who share a courtyard with Greenough, said Charles G. Thomas, a resident in the apartment complex.
Thomas, and attorney who has lived on Ware St. since 1985, said in an interview that in the past few years nearly all of the students have been extremely well-behaved, but that each year--this year included--there are two or three Greenough rooms that are excessively noisy.
Saying that the courtyard is "enormously acoustically sensitive," Thomas added that "you can hear normal conversations" that take place in the courtyard.
Thursday's meeting came soon after Thomas wrote two letters to Frome, one complaining of the loud noise from Greenough late at night and the other asking Harvard for a copy of a memorandum sent to Greenough residents reminding them to keep down noise levels, Thomas said.
"He is a fine person and a superb professor. If they were looking for someone with excellent criterion in both philosophy and economics, they found him," said Alford Professor of Moral Philosophy Thomas M. Scanlon.