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...they wanted to, there is nothing to keep Harvard from selling the forest outright. They can sell it for lumber if anyone were foolish enough to buy it," Calvin Stillman said...
...John Stillman said his brother was never interested in Black Rock, and didn't appreciate how much his father valued the New York forest. He said Calvin Stillman spent more time in Petersham, and is naturally more interested in maintaining that operation...
...Basically Harvard and the state might quibble over the size, but I am pleased that the principle has been accepted. A trust fund must remain with the forest. It's Harvard's obligation," said John Stillman. "We're not asking that Harvard leave the whole endowment with the forest, but now there is certainly no chance of them taking...
...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...
...Calvin Stillman sees the situation differently: "These people, 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...