Word: downs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And as sources of funding diversify, Harvard must be ever more diligent. In spite of the needs of the $2.1 billion Capital Campaign, Rudenstine and deans of the University's various graduate schools say they have turned down gifts that do not match the University's intellectual aims.
In the spring of 1995, Yale University did something extraordinary--something that most people would never expect a fund-hungry Ivy League college of the 1990s to do. They turned money down. Big money.
In recent years, Yale has been one of the most prominent universities to consistently turn down money. About two years later, the Daily News reported on gay rights activist Larry Kramer's unsuccessful bid to establish a chair in gay and lesbian studies. Kramer, a 1957 Yale alumnus, also offered...
It is probably important to define what I mean by intellectuals. I mean people who have a tendency to answer questions with questions and to think not inside or outside the box as much as about the box itself. The intellectual may not get the recruiting job or the place...
The Rams whittled the lead down to two with 55 seconds left in the first half on a three-pointer from junior guard Shannon Boor.