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...described his recent dreams of a university plagued by commercialization, beginning with the acceptance of a $2 billion loan from an alum and listing a series of schemes—including placement of corporate logos on syllabi and an auction giving 100 spots in Harvard College to the highest bidders...
...acknowledges that commercialization in higher education is by no means a new phenomenon. As proof, he points to a 1909 statement from a disgruntled Harvard alum, John Jay Chapman: “The men who control Harvard today are very little else than businessmen, running a large department store which dispenses education to the millions...
...private dispute erupted between an alum who decried Zionism as racist and a student who linked the peace movement with anti-Semitism over the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ) open e-mail list this month, stirring a controversy on a list that usually sees few posts...
...pair of jeans and a pair of corduroys. My favorite and only heavy jacket was my letterman’s jacket. I worked over the summer and made about $1,000, and that had to last me for the whole season,” said HLS alum Len Elmore. “There have to be lots of students in that situation today...
...road from food industry executive to national arts booster is not a path well-traveled. But it is the path of Dana Gioia, a former General Foods vice president, Harvard alum, poet and newly appointed chair of the National Endowment for the Arts...