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According to an article in yesterday's Gazette, $500,000 of the grant money will go to the Art Museums' drive to endow a photography department acquisitions fund...
Harvard University Art Museums received an anonymous $2.5 million grant to endow a curatorship in photography...
...largest beneficiary is Harvard College,which will receive $39.2 million. A majority ofthis money will go to endow six new professorshipsand add to the endowment of 15 junior facultypositions the Loebs' donated...
...culture as a community activity seem old fashioned to many people. One of them appears to be Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who reportedly has bought the electronic rights to museum masterpieces for projection on the walls of his mansion-in-the making in Medina, Washington. Billionaires used to endow museums to care for their private art collections; amassing the digitalized holdings of such institutions for home enjoyment is not quite the same thing. With libraries moving online and 500 channels of interactive TV promised fairly soon, even modestly well-to-do and well-connected families may someday find leaving...
...history department is looking to endow teaching fellowships if this course is approved by a committee of faculty, students and administrators who oversee the core. The size of most sections for the proposed course is targeted at 10 students, significantly lower than the enrollment in most core sections...