Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost no systematic attempt was being made to reach these kinds of students. It was then that Harvard approached the head of an Eastern foundation who was personally interested in helping disadvantaged students. Harvard had a plan in mind, but had to be tactful in approaching the prospective donor, Briggs recalls...
...right. "There are now at least twice as many members of the freshman class who are eligible for this program as are on the actual gamble-fund list," says Briggs. In fact, the original donor has been gradually reducing payments and by 1970 will stop them altogether...
When he provided the original funds, the donor had a specific idea in mind. "He wanted to see if we could discover some quality that all these boys possessed, say at age ten, and thus be able to predict greatness from boys in Harlem at that age," Briggs explains. Only one consistent quality, difficult to predict, was found. "At some point in their boyhoods," says Briggs, "some thoughtful, sensitive adult came in contact with these boys and made a deep impression on them. In some cases, it was a neighbor, in others a priest, or perhaps a YMCA leader...
Twenty years ago Harvard brought a "risk" from a small farm in the Midwest. Today he is a well-known Ivy League professor, and if Briggs, Glimp, and the gamble fund's donor have their way, college faculties in the next two decades will be full of the same kinds of risks
Although the fact that the unpromising transplant worked so well seems to be a result of the donor's cancer, the possibility remains that in this case the recipient had an inborn weakness of the rejection system. The doctors are now checking that possibility too. But they are fascinated by the idea that organs from cancer patients may be surprisingly suitable for transplants...