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...STILLMAN isn't really equipped to deal with problems of this kind, and everyone sees the insomniac as a kind of hysteric or hypochondriac. But insomnia may be a lot more common than we think. I have lots of suspected victims in mind, the most recent being a junior who wants to move into 20 Walker Street, a lonely satellite of Cabot House, because "Lowell House is too noisy." Last year, I lived next to a trumpet player with a penchant for Israeli rock, and I slept fine. Noise is the least of an insomniac's problems. In fact...
Harvard officials were thrilled in 1950 when Ernest G. Stillman '08, one of their wealthiest benefactors, gave the University a $1.2 million trust fund to promote the study of forestry...
There was just one snag. Along with the trust fund, Stillman left Harvard an all-too-real forest in upstate New York. Unfortunately, almost no one bothered using the Black Rock forest for research. This left Harvard with a problem: how to get rid of the forest without giving up the trust fund...
Nonetheless, the sale drew criticism from at least one of Stillman's sons...
...feel Harvard has seriously broken faith with my father," said John S. Stillman '40. "It's as though one of President Bok's Faustian nightmares, the subject of his Commencement address, had come true...