Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard stands accused of numerous breaches in the administration of the 93-year-old charitable trust under which it runs the Arnold Arboretum. The Arboretum was established on, and still occupies, 265 acres in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston...
...member Association for the Arnold Arboretum, a non-profit corporation formed the same year, is seeking to have the material returned. Seventeen of its members--including Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus, and Francis T. P. Plimpton, an Overseer and former deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations--brought the present suit...
...case is the indenture under which the trustees of James Arnold gave Harvard $100,000 in 1872. The money was to be held until it grew to $150,000 and until the land in Jamaica Plain could be acquired. It was then to be used to establish an arboretum containing, "as far as is practicable, all the trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, either indigenous or exotic which can be raised in the open air" at that site...
...petitioners charge that in amalgamating its biological facilities, the University ignored the Arboretum's interests in favor of its own. One strains to conceive of a more flagrant perversion of the Indenture of 1872," they observe...
...master" appointed by the Supreme Court to make findings of fact reported in October 1961 that the transfer had injured "the reputation, prestige and standing of the Arboretum" as a distinct institution. The University brief contends that the indenture "did not impose any obligation...to create or maintain any reputation or prestige, separate or otherwise...