Word: aga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karim Aga Khan and Thomas Parsekian...
Prince Karim Aga Kahn '58, leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims, met with advisory committees from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) yesterday to discuss the use of an $11.5 million grant he made to the two universities last April...
...program] spans an enormous area of the world and an enormous area in time," the Aga Kahn said last night. "It will have to address itself to teaching faculty in other countries...
...Aga Kahn's money will endow a chair at Harvard, one at MIT, and a visiting professorship and assistant protessorship at each university, as well as expanded information programs at their libraries and museums. It will also finance exchange programs and a fellowship program for doctoral students...
...Aga Khan said, "We're talking about a concern for information. That in itself means coordinating the library." He said he chose Harvard and MIT because the United States will lead architecture around the world, and these two institutions "offer strong components in initiating a program...