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Malin is a very optimistic coach, even in the face of his team's dismal record so far. But with Dave Winton out with a broken leg, and John Kiernan recuperating in Stillman Infirmary from an operation to remove a spleen ruptured in last Wednesday's Brown match, Malin isn't planning any victory parties...
That force, according to environmental sources, could come in the form of a recommendation that the University sell Con Ed the land it needs to build a pumped storage power plant near Black Rock Forest, a tract of land bequeathed to Harvard by Ernest G. Stillman '08 upon his death...
HARVARD ALSO HAS a responsibility to its donors. Ernest G. Stillman '08, who bequeathed the land to the University, was an avid naturalist who intended his gift to be used for forestry research. It is not unreasonable to believe that he would have objected strenuously to the sale of his land--as have many of his descendants--to a utility bent on using it with transparent disregard for the intricacies of the region's ecology...
...voice of the Stillman family also has been heard. In a meeting with Bok and Steiner, several family members expressed their opposition to the report's conclusions. But the family also includes one of the most vocal proponents of the project, Calvin W. Stillman '39. He wrote in a 1966 Black Rock Forest Report that he felt "the plant as planned constitutes no significant blight upon the natural beauty of Storm King and the Hudson River shorelines" and that he saw no reason why it should not be built...
...beside the numerous environmental issues, the question of University responsibility to trustees also exists. The Environmental Law Society pointed out in its letter to Bok that "the long-time residence of the family on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and Dr. Stillman's own use of the forest make clear that his broad intention was to preserve the area in its condition of natural beauty." It went on to say that "the proper role of Harvard is to oppose with full vigor the construction of a pumped storage generating plant on Storm King Mountain...