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Last week, the Expository Writing Program received a $2 million pat on the back from the Sosland Foundation. Interest from the gift will endow the directorship of the program and fund the Sosland Prize to reward outstanding first-year writing. While we welcome the gift, we think that the money could have been better spent...
Buell replied that they would be grandfathered in, and Knowles joked that as atonement, the professor could endow a chair...
...family decided to endow expository writing because of our own understanding of the importance of written communications," Morton Sosland told the Harvard Gazette this week...
...show comes at the right place, its end, with four still lifes by Francisco de Goya. Because Goya was supremely a painter of the human clay in all its aspects, we don't associate him with still life. But his powers of empathy were so vast that he could endow almost anything with a shiver of mortality and the cold touch of otherness; and so it is with these paintings...
...fund-raising foul-ups was unveiled when Yale University admitted that it was returning, at the donor's request, a $20 million gift from Texas oil billionaire Lee M. Bass. Scrambling to put a spin on the fiasco, Yale claimed that giving back the money, intended to endow a new program in Western Civilization, was an act of courage in the face of unreasonable demands. Some critics of the administration claimed a Pyrrhic victory for multiculturalism. At heart, though, it was managerial ineptitude and a clash of egos that ruined the deal...