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...other museums watched with interest, on Sept. 16 Denver auctioned off 1,500 items--to the glee of bargain hunters and the dismay of some descendants of the museum's benefactors. Says George Neubert, director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska: "What Denver has done is quite new and very bold." And lucrative. The auction raised...
Sometimes, children can even add to the financial resources of a house, as infant Alana Yang, daughter of tutors Malia Preble and Scott H. Yang '87, once did at a Kirkland House Dutch Auction...
...Students convinced my husband to put Alana up for auction--holding her--it kind of eases their stress during exam time, holding a little tiny baby," Preble says. "The bidding started at $5, and it went up to I think $15. Mostly men were bidding...
...convention space. A 172-seat theater opened last week, with 70-mm showings of To Fly and a Reno travelog on a four-story screen. Pearson is already booking the theater for lectures and the space outside for a wide array of events, such as an auction in which 1,000 Harley-Davidsons will be displayed on the stadium's gleaming approaches. "You have to be able to attract events, and I'm going to concentrate on that," says Pearson. "Versatility is the key. You can't make it on leagues anymore." League bowling is in fact down by almost...
...course, this proposed auction is just the beginning. Harvard should not let anything get in the way of its capital campaign. More money for education is far more important than anything as trivial as institutional dignity or age-old tradition. Harvard should offer to rename itself after anyone willing to kick in enough money...