Word: rocke
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...words of one Harvard alumnus who asked to remain anonymous, the Golden proposal relied on local educational institutions to preserve silviculture at Black Rock and he called such an "unsure financial and philosophical grounding" for the forest "totally unacceptable...
George Gowen, chairman of the Scenic Hudson, said, "There is so much tangible evidence that Stillman wanted his money to be used primarily for Black Rock. I am satisfied the documents show that the forest and the endowment went hand in hand...
Gowen said that unless the practice of silviculture and the maintenance money available from Stillman's Black Rock Trust Fund could be assured by Golden, then Harvard would be shirking its responsibility...
...possibility that Harvard has been siphoning money from the Stillman endowment, Trow said, means that the needs of Black Rock have to be considered from scratch. Trow's committee prepared a 35-page report analyzing the forest's financial needs, and determined that a multi-million-dollar endowment would be necessary to do justice to Ernest Stillman's original wishes...
...including my brother, want the land there for their own use, but they don't have a strong rational basis for forcing Harvard to maintain it. If my father were alive now, he would sympathize with Harvard," he said, referring to what he called his father's belief Black Rock was useless to the University...