Word: ellison
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When Larry Ellison mentioned to a Wall Street Journal reporter that he was planning to give $150 million to either Harvard or Stanford, he caught the development offices of both schools off-guard...
...after an initial flurry of press reports following Ellison’s surprise disclosure, both institutions have agreed to cooperate to keep further negotiations with Ellison out of the press...
According to David M. Glen, Stanford’s associate vice-president for development, Stanford had been in conversations with Ellison about funding for an interdisciplinary program in technology and public policy for several months. But the talks were informal, and they had lapsed recently...
...haven’t been in touch with [Ellison] for some time,” Glen said...
...Though national and international figures have been more prevalent on the Commencement stage, writers, philosophers and scholars-such as novelists Lady Barbara Ward Jackson in 1957 and Ralph Ellison in 1974--have shared their words with the masses as well. And while they may not have the same potential for international impact, Hunt says, they make up for it in eloquence...