COLLEGE POSTS REAL ESTATE TO AVOID PUBLIC EASEMENT

The sheriff of Middlesex County yesterday announced that Harvard owned some real estate in Cambridge.

In length, legalistic posters placed in conspicuous places on University property, the sheriff and Aldrich Durant, business manager, stated that the Corporation claimed sole ownership of its property and would resist any claims that the public had obtained an "easement" on the property because of common use of Harvard's paths and driveways.

Such notices have to be posted every 17 years, Durant explained, in order to affirm the University's title. Otherwise, after a certain period of time the state may claim that the title has lapsed through public use.