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...week, Bok had apparently quashed the cries of the opposition to a degree by saying privately that the University has not changed its attitude toward its trusteeship of its forest near Cornwall...
President Bok said privately yesterday that the University has not changed its attitude toward its trusteeship of Black Rock Forest near Cornwall...
Matteson interpreted the statement as an implicit continuation of the policy of President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28. Pusey said near the end of his presidency that the University had "no desire to have land under our trusteeship used for the purposed proposed...
...reaffirmed this position in a two-sentence letter to a member of the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, the project's most active opposition. "There has been no change in Harvard's attitude about Black Rock Forest," Pusey wrote, "We have no desire to have land under our trusteeship used for the purposes proposed by Con Ed." The committee's failure to include any consideration of the former President's position in its recommendations is hardly surprising in light of its self-confessed lack of "stamina". This admission appears to serve as a convenient excuse for not delving into the detailed...
...continue its opposition to Consolidated Edison's purchase of any part of Black Rock Forest. Since President Emeritus Pusey first announced Harvard's opposition to voluntary surrender of the land, the grounds for support of his position have expanded. The issue is no longer only the obligations of trusteeship, but obligations to the environment and the public interest as well. Harvard must grow into new responsibilities, rather than shrink from its old ones...