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...statement released Wednesday, Harvard spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said there are “no current discussions about or plans for change” in the ownership of the land, which was given to Harvard in the 1927 will of former Boston mayor Nathan Matthews...
...statement to the Globe last month, Mitchell said that Harvard had “initiated an evaluation” of the Hamilton property in response to an inquiry from the Trustees of Reservations about possibly acquiring a “small piece” of the land...
John L. Hamilton, a member of the town’s conservation commission who attended Harvard Law School, said he opposed selling the land because he did not believe the Trustees of Reservations could fulfill the goals outlined by Matthews, an 1875 graduate of Harvard College and alumnus of Harvard Law School. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Hamilton community also expressed concern that parts of the land could be resold to developers...
...That is simply not our plan today and will never be our plan to develop [the land] in any for-profit way or sell it to anyone who would that for that matter,” Gray said...