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...number of alumni contributing to the Fund is also on the rise, although Harvard's participation level--32 per cent last year--still lags behind the 50 to 60 per cent of Dartmouth and Princeton alumni who respond to their alma mater's financial pleas...
...that the Seven Sisters have failed because they are not hot-beds of the women's movement lacks supporting evidence. Deference is not characteristic of women's colleges. Indeed, most of the recognized leaders of today's women's movement are alumnae of women's colleges who credit their alma maters for shaping their feminism. Graduates of these schools who are public officials or corporate officers--in greater numbers than women from coeducational schools--did not succeed against de facto or de jure discrimination by being ladylike. Such education is hardly a failure...
Doug Risebrough, out of Guelph, Ont., is a gifted center who rooms with Mario Tremblay, from Alma, Que. "Our team is about half French," he says, "and people from the media sometimes look for strains. But there aren't any Election night you heard some jokes. The Anglos were through here. The next day we'd have to play for Ottawa. Jokes were all these were. I mean the record sort of indicates that we get along...
Although corporations, like individuals, can take a tax deduction on their gifts, "nobody makes money on a gift," Peterson says. He feels corporations have the same basic motives for giving that individuals do. While the individual may be concerned with "doing something immortal" for the alma mater, Peterson says that if corporations are going to exercise power, giving money to an educational institution is certainly a "benign" way to do so. Corporations may feel "obligated to support institutions which provide them with technology and people...
This time around the characters are not even wooden-just beaverboard. With one exception. As Alma, Betsy Palmer gives a performance that is touching and precise as a girl with a bad case of the fantods, erotic in the generosity of proffered and unrequited love, and radiant in the intensity of the deepest human feelings...