Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word opinion, written by Associate Justice Arthur E. Whittemore '17, the Court held that "the best interests of the Arboretum" had not been violated by the removal of the materials. The Court cited evidence that the move to Cambridge had created "a world famous sicentific station" with "one of the greatest libraries and herbaria in the world...
...decision means that Harvard will not have to return the Arboretum's library and herbaria from their present location in Cambridge to the Arboretum proper in Jamaica Plain a move that would have cost several hundred thousand dollars...
Harvard moved about 57,000 books and 600,000 plant specimens to the University Herbarium in 1953. The Association for the Arnold Arboretum later sought their return, the Arboretum later sought their return, alleging that Harvard had tried to increase its prestige at the Arboretum's expense...
...contention that the move had damaged the prestige of the Arboretum, the Court replied that "the prestige was not...a capital asset which could not be expended [under the terms of the trust by which Harvard runs the Arboretum]." The opinion said there was nothing to "show or suggest that the Corporation was acting to increase the prestige of Harvard University as an end in itself...
...Court's decision however, requires the University to fulfill certain other obligations towards the Arboretum. These Include the improvement of the working library at the Jamaica Plain site, the proper catologuing and identification of all Arboretum materials now in the University Herbarium, and an appropriate notice at the Cambridge location identifying the Arnold Arboretum materials...