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...program--funded by Brown's maintenance department and a matching grant from an unidentified New York alumnus--pays students $8 an hour to scour the campus every morning for litter, and the money the students make is donated to the financial aid fund...
This does not mean the group, which raised much of the picture's minuscule $60,000 budget from family and friends (with the aid of an Oxford alumnus. Director John Schlesinger, who helped get production equipment at a discount), has achieved a perfectly glittering surprise on its first try. Indeed the film is flawed at its center by an unattractive protagonist named Edward, an oversmart, oversmug womanizer and all-around user of people, who is supposed to summarize all that is wrong with traditional Oxford attitudes. In this role Robert Woolley does the nasty bits well, but mostly leaves...
...prominent Harvard alumnus last week endowed a humanities professorship in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...much more effective if an alumnus is asking another alumnus for what may seem to be a staggering commitment," adds Glimp...
...What you're always having to do is make a strong case of why you need the money," Glimp says. Harvard's approach of involving as many important alumni in the process as possible has yielded truly impressive results, which Glimp characterizes as "the alumnus's answer to President Bok...that 'I'm grateful you're working as hard as you are to keep my college strong...