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...unavoidable,” need for larger faculty, three more houses.10/2: Holly Carleton is chosen as Miss Radcliffe ’59. WHRB, the undergraduate radio station, wins approval of football broadcasts a day later.10/5: School of education faces budget cuts of $63,000 when $300,000 bequest expires in June.10/9: Local alumni begin fundraising $80,000 to restore Memorial Hall tower. The Divinity School must get $675,000 before the end of the year to retain $250,000 given by the late Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont.10/10: The student council endorses a petition, signed by more than 900 students...
...League rival Princeton first. Harvard finished third behind Stanford. The annual survey, released in conjunction with Princeton Review’s new book, Parents’ Guide to College Life, can be accessed on the Princeton Review website. NYU announced on Tuesday the receipt of a $200 million bequest to endow an Ancient Studies program. This donation is more than double the largest single gift ever received by Harvard—$70.5 million from the Loeb Family...
...South Asia will illuminate Islam in regions not immediately associated with the religion. But along with other professors and students on campus, we share some concerns about the possible implications of the gift. One concern is the prince’s background and a possible use of the academic bequest as a matter of Saudi foreign policy. Though Prince Alwaleed has major investments in the United States and is more pro-American than other members of the Saudi royal family, he is still the nephew of the late King Fahd and therefore a member of the monarchical government that preaches...
...Monty Kipps, a black, traditionalist art historian who campaigns against affirmative action and other sacred cows of the liberal establishment. The story rambles on through renovations of several key Forster plot points: a broken engagement, a mix-up at a public concert, a Christmas shopping trip, and a stifled bequest. But by the time Smith's story is over it is clear that On Beauty is not just an homage but a work of real originality. Smith has a virtuoso talent for capturing dialect, which makes her dialogue almost audible. Belsey's son Levi, a mixed-race child of privilege...
...high living to which even he had been previously unaccustomed. Together they created a $30 million, 140-acre homestead in Princeton, N.J., called Jasna Polana after Leo Tolstoy's Russian estate, though what Tolstoy would have thought of its air-conditioned doghouse is hard to say. Even before the bequest that may make her one of the world's wealthiest women, she cut a swath through auction houses, and recently spent a staggering $4.8 million for a drawing by Raphael and $1.5 million for a Louis XVI cabinet...