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This same view was one expressed by environmentalists when they first began seeking a Harvard commitment to protect the land. At that time, Vandivert noted: "If I were a donor to Harvard and saw that they provided good stewardship and protection for my gift, I might do something more for them. But if I were to give them something in good faith only to have them dispose of it, I would question giving them the next Spiro Agnew watch...
That law explicitly forbids an employer to finance any of his employees in a suit against their own union. Foundation officials contend that their efforts are legal because donor corporations contribute to a common fund and have no choice in deciding which suits get legal aid; thus, they say, no company is instigating suits by its own employees. Foundation President Reed Larson nevertheless refuses to disclose the names of the corporate contributors, although in effect the ten-union suit demands that he do so. If he did, says Larson, the unions would "try to intimidate these people to stop giving...
...reasons for locating the new dorm on the site of Hunt Hall is that the donor of the $3 million building insisted that it be located in the Yard, Bok said...
Dwayne Hoover, similarly, is programmed to go mad. But, as Vonnegut observes, smiling benignly, "people who go crazy need someone to give them their ideas, somebody to write their words for them." This donor is Kilgore Trout, the bedraggled science-fiction writer who, on encountering Dwayne's question ("What is the purpose of life?") as a graffito in a New York movie-theater men's room, finds that he has no pen or pencil with which to write his answer: "To be/the eyes/and ears/and conscience/of the Creator of the Universe/you fool." Trout has been invited to give...
They traipsed through the forest on the many marked trails and picnicked by Aleck Meadow Reservoir where John S. Stillman '40, son of the donor of the land, condemned Harvard for its lackadaisical attitude toward the forest's upkeep...