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While debates over college curriculum get the most attention, professors generally can resist or subvert the most wrongheaded changes and students generally have mature enough judgment to sort out the arguments. Elementary- and secondary-school curriculums reach a far broader segment at a far more / impressionable age, and political expediency...
Nichols said that Kirkland and Ellis chair, which will not be activated until the funding is complete five years from now, has not yet been assigned any specific area of focus because "the firm wants to be responsive to the school's needs."
Kirkland and Ellis partner Daniel W. Vittum, Jr. said in a phone interview that "the nature of the gift is that there are no strings attached" and that his firm "did not seek to put any restriction on area." He said the firm preferred to leave such determinations to Law...
The Harvard endowment marked Kirkland and Ellis's third large gift to a major university in recent years. In 1985, the firm funded a chair at the University of Chicago. Last fall, it established a chair at Northwestern University.
Vittum added that his firm often recruits at Harvard, and said he believed that around 40 of Kirkland and Ellis's400 attorneys were Harvard Law graduates.