Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Liem, the benefactor, whom he said is not an undergraduate, offered him a "blank check," and her filled...
...hard" evidence leads to conflicting conclusions. The class of '69 is generally considered to be a very poor benefactor to Harvard, giving less money to its alma mater than other classes. Yet according to a survey done for the Class's tenth reunion, the occupational choices of class members are not radically different from those of other classes. At that time, 93 percent of the "anti-establishment" Class had gone back to educational institutions and received some sort of advanced professional or a academic degree: 23 percent of the men and 15 percent of the women were lawyers...
...taking a single class where the instructor was a woman. That may not be a lapse of memory: there was only one tenured woman on the faculty at the time. She was one of the first women to win a lifetime appointment here, thanks in part to a feisty benefactor who endowed a chair on the condition that it be filled by a female scholar. The professor, a medieval historian named Helen Maud Cam,learned as many lessons at Harvard as she taught. In her first years here, she was barred from attending morning services at Memorial Church; only after...
...February. It gathered steam on Monday, when the leader of the tiny Tami Party, whose three members belong to the Likud coalition, called for early elections. The sudden about-face was partly attributed in some quarters to pressure from Nissim Gaon, a Swiss-Jewish multimillionaire and Tami benefactor. After Nigeria failed to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars for a chain of luxury hotels he was building, Gaon reportedly asked Shamir's government to allow Israeli banks in Switzerland to give him loan guarantees. When Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad refused, Gaon urged Tami Leader Aharon Abuhatzeira...
...Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died the following year, at age 75, in Zurich, within a circle of admirers and close to Bryher, nee Annie Winifred Ellerman, the energetic heiress and novelist (The Fourteenth of October) who had been her lover and benefactor for more than 40 years...