Word: arboretum
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...point the Corporation would not concede: point 10 of its vote decreed the removal of most of the books and specimens to Cambridge, declaring that the step "is in the best interests of the Arboretum and will promote the purposes of its endowment...
...Form, not substance," was the reaction of the Arboretum group, and their tempers were not sweetened when the Corporation ordered the new building begun. Wishing to retain the gardens as the unit Sargent had built, they could brook so such withdrawals, which they said was "milking" the Arboretum and turning it into a "park...
When counsel applied for use of Fingold's name, Assistant Attorney General Harris J. Booras was given the job of investigating. Twice he spoke with both sides, and he made trips to the Arboretum land the new herbarium in Cambridge. He also received bales of letters, one of which--from Oscar M. Shaw of Ropes, Gray--assumed major importance. This letter, which according to the petitioners "teems with bad law, unjustifiable statements of alleged fact and misleading advice." was more or less followed in the memo handed down by Booras later, the memo which concluded 'by direction of the Attorney...
...case against Harvard to defeat the Attorney General. The gap between the opinions is narrower than at the dispute's earlier stages; with the concession of January 1953, there is less to argue about. The primary differences, however, still seem to stem from different conceptions of what, exactly, the Arboretum is. The arguments in Harvard's favor seem to view the trust as a fund with a set of purposes attached, while the petitioners focus on what is going to happen to those 265 acres in Jamaica Plain. The Association sees only the collapse of an identifiable unit, the disappearance...
...case came up for a hearing two weeks ago before Chief Justice Qua and Justices Williams, Lummus, and Couhihan. Both sides spoke at length, but the Court for the most part interrupted only Mr. Dodge. The questions referred to the writ of Mandamus, and the merits of the Arboretum dispute itself were not stressed. At one point the Chief Justice commented, "Petitioners position appears to be a novel...