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...peers in the school. And, according to the exhaustively researched book The Game of Life, co-written by the former president of Princeton, for self- and extra-selecting reasons they will make more money as adults and are more likely to donate that money to their liberal arts alma maters. So, if Fitzsimmons tells FM that the admissions committee wants students who will make a “positive impact on the world for the next 60, 70, or 80 years,” then it seems reasonable for him to admit jocks (though please could we keep...
Taubman, whose net worth is estimated at $860 million, recently announced his plan to donate $30 million to the University of Michigan, his alma mater, where the College of Architecture and Urban Planning will be named after him. The health care center and medical library at the University of Michigan already bear his name...
When President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed disapproval at his alma mater. Biographer Edmund Morris tells the story with typically vivid prose: “Harvard, to Theodore, was a temple defiled by mugwumps, who congregated here to exchange the dull coins of anti-imperialism. Roosevelt launched into a stentorian defense of his island administrations and the public servants who sacrificed their careers to help ‘weaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.’” Earlier that...
When President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed disapproval at his alma mater. Biographer Edmund Morris tells the story with typically vivid prose: “Harvard, to Theodore, was a temple defiled by mugwumps, who congregated here to exchange the dull coins of anti-imperialism. Roosevelt launched into a stentorian defense of his island administrations and the public servants who sacrificed their careers to help ‘weaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.’” Earlier that...
...Taubman funded Harvard’s center, he helped found the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University with a $2 million gift. Taubman has also made donations totalling tens of millions of dollars to public policy and planning programs at Michigan State and his alma mater, the University of Michigan...