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...Corporation opened a fund to endow a chair in the field ten years ago, but, aside from a short-lived attempt under former president Nathan M. Pusey '28 to establish a whole department in modern Greek studies, nothing came of the idea until Athan Anagnostopoulos lecturer in classics at Boston University approached Dean Rosovsky this fall...
Most often, however, humans attempt to endow their pets with human qualities, deluding themselves and demeaning animals. Many married couples who are unwilling or unable to have children adopt animals instead, embarking on a quasi-parental relationship without the responsibilities and hazards involved in child rearing. "If your romance is going to the dogs," suggests a pet-food-industry publication called Pet Pourri, "you might try a dog to save it." In fact, there are countless cases in which a couple's rivalry for a pet's affection-or occasionally even its sexual favors-ends in divorce...
...gift was the third Harvard has received in the last year from Japanese sources. The Mitsubishi companies gave the Law School 1 million to endow a chair in Japanese legal studies and the Nissan and Toyota automobile companies gave 1 million to the Japan Institute...
...first corporate million came from giant Mitsubishi a little over a year ago. Harvard's Jerome Alan Cohen, who was teaching at Doshisha University in Kyoto, suggested that Japan's largest trading house might spare that amount to endow a chair at Harvard Law School, and Mitsubishi agreed. Not to be outdone, the rival Sumitomo group gave $2,000,000 to Yale in June; four months later, Mitsui promised $1,000,000 to M.I.T. (from which a Mitsui founder graduated...
With the grant, Toyota Motor Company joined Nissan Motors, which also contributed $1 million to the institute last month, and Mitsubishi Industries, which gave the same amount to endow a chain in Japanese legal studies last year...