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Francis H. Burr '35, another Corporation member, said that in recent weeks it had become more apparent that the combination of construction and operating cost increases was threatening the project's future...
...Maybe we were wrong, "Burr said of the Corporation's endorsement of Bok's decision to cancel the project. "But you have to blow the whistle at some point. We just didn't see the money coming...
...Burr said that the proposed Fogg expansion differed significantly from several recent construction projects for University hockey and basketball facilities...
...money is going to come in for [athletics]," Burr said. "But on this one [the Fogg], they had been back to the well so many times" that there did not seem a good chance of raising the remaining money...
...Burr confirmed the impression held by Ackerman and others of the Corporation's outlook by saying. "We have been burnt many times before and it's cost a lot of money. There have been many times that we felt foolish, when in retrospect we would have been better to cancel the whole thing...