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...KLUGE, chairman of the Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25 million in 1987 and the same amount in 1990. Gushed Sovern: "John...
Radcliffe College has received a $2 million gift from a foundation that will endow the chair for the Director for the Arthur Schlesginer Library, President Linda S. Wilson said last night...
Radcliffe will use the contribution to endow the salary of the library's director--as Radcliffe prepares to celebrate the library's 50th anniversary...
...Going to Get Cute, Lose Weight. There's a reason why the Good Lord in his wisdom did not endow the elephant with a sense of whimsy. A person could get crushed by a large creature's attempts to trip the light fantastic. That's pretty much the way Toys leaves you: flattened, bruised and whimpering...
...costs just $2 million for a tenured chair (as in, "Linsky Professor of Politics Michael S. Dukakis"), or $3 million for the deluxe-model University professorship, according to Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50. Bargain hunters might want to endow a junior professorship for the low, low price of $1 million...