When West obtained outside funding, the trustees rejected Wilson's plan for colleges in 1908, and then endorsed West's alternative in 1909.
But the trustees have rejected two earlier proposals for the site: a condominium complex and a drug-rehabilitation center.
He said a half-dozen potential trustees rejected pleas to run.
The Indian museum's trustees have rejected that proposal.
In this context, a trustee may assume or reject any executory contract or unexpired lease subject to court approval.
But the trustees who voted for Perles rejected the notion that they were controlled or even that the issue was academics over education.
Though there have been calls to institute coeducation, the trustees have consistently rejected such attempts.
An advisory board recommmended the book, but the trustees of Columbia University rejected it.
But the school's trustees rejected the offer, saying that the campus had a replacement value of $11 million and that the residents' bid was much too low.
Architect Peter Eisenman proposed a design for the new building, but the museum's trustees and local residents rejected it.