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...money will endow professorships and fellowships at the Kennedy School of Government and the public-policy-related programs at the Graduate Schools of Design. Education and Public Health...
...campaign has a number of worthy stated goals, including endowment of faculty salaries, building renovations, student financial aid, new junior faculty positions, and the Public Policy program. It would be a shame, though if none of the millions raised from alumni ever makes its way to students in the form of eased tuition increases. Faculty officials say the $120 million or so they will raise to endow faculty salaries and student financial aid will give them much more flexibility in annual budget-making, by freeing money currently restricted to specific uses for whatever purposes Dean Rosovsky and his Faculty budgeters...
Another $1 million will endow a fund for teaching innovations administered by Bowersock. He hands out about $50,000 a year--now taken from the Faculty's unrestricted income--to teachers who need money to introduce unorthodox teaching materials or class activities. John Bohstedt, former assistant professor of history, took his class on on industrial history on a trip to industrial museums in western Massachusetts on such a grant...
...Kahn's money will endow a chair at Harvard, one at MIT, and a visiting professorship and assistant protessorship at each university, as well as expanded information programs at their libraries and museums. It will also finance exchange programs and a fellowship program for doctoral students...
Once again, Jean-Pierre Leaud delivers a perfectly realized portrait of Antoine. Playing Truffaut's autobiographical self, Leaud has merged the three: Antoine, Truffaut and himself. The rest of the performances are equally superb. Claude Jade manages to endow the solemn Christine with a rare subtlety. Nicknamed Peggy Proper because of her almost British reserve, Jade allows this woman's wit and shy humor to shine out. Marie-France Pisier performs most of the heavy dramatics; she gives her Colette a certain desperation well-suited to a woman lawyer unable to get clients and reduced to turning tricks...