Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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At a subsequent meeting with representatives of the tenants' association, Ebert said that he agreed in principle with the group's demands and would recommend that the Corporation accede to them.
The demonstrators had asked for a speedy rental of presently vacant apartments, immediate repair of all safety hazards, and replacement of Harvard's rental agency, Hunneman and Co., with an agent of the tenants' own choosing.
At one point, the tour paused at 797 Huntington Ave., where Hunneman has recently set up a rental and superintendent's office. There are no signs indicating what the office is, and Shepard Brown, vice president of Hunneman, confirmed that, until thisweek, it has not always been open regularly.
Robert S. Parks, president of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Association, charged that vacant apartments were not being rented "to get us out of this neighborhood, to get rid of us, to tear down everything [Harvard has] get there, and do with it what [they] want."
Almost one year after it began a study of its own procedures, the Faculty neared completion of the project yesterday by approving another set of proposals from the Fainsod committee.