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Pyramids & Polemics. Das Kapital's sheer size-three volumes and more than 2,000 pages-is almost enough to endow it with a religious aura. The work, says British Historian Isaiah Berlin, "has been blindly worshiped and blindly hated by millions who have not read a line of it, or have read without understanding its obscure and tortuous prose." Since 1917, more than 6,000,000 copies of it have been printed in the Soviet Union. Yet the Albanians, who have been Communists for two dec ades, managed to do without it until last year, when they published...
According to officials of the Center, the money will be used primarily for research, but also to purchase library materials and to endow new Faculty chairs...
...when it was every four or five years." Also on the rise are college payrolls for nonteaching services. At Kalamazoo College, for example, janitorial salaries have climbed 40% in the past five years-and no one, ruefully notes Columbia's Kirk, "ever wants to endow janitorial services...
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands will lecture on the results of the Marshall Plan at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Emerson 105. Details of his visit -- and the lectureship he has helped endow -- are on page eight...
...foundation decided to endow the professorships in marketing as a memorial to Kresge because his greatest business contribution was in this field, Baldwin said...