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...larger library now considered necessary and would still leave room for substantial parking space. But the land has been valued at $6 million, and its purchase would greatly increase the $20 million price tax Library officials had estimated would be required to build the Library complex and endow the Institute of politics that will be connected with...
...Ford grant, the largest single sum ever received by Harvard, will be used to endow nine professorships, to construct a building for international affairs and to sponsor international research...
...rejection letters, Jeff," he said. Jeff, who had wadded them all into a ball, tried to uncrinkle them. "Its the population explosion," said Brookstone. "You can attribute it all to that. Competition is just too tough." Then he added, with a grin: "All the same, I'll never endow a building at Harvard or Yale after this." But Jeff wistfully recalls visiting Cambridge and New Haven last summer: "Have you ever been to Harvard? The whole atmosphere is just tremendous. You can almost sense the learning and the traditions of the place. And Yale. I could get lost...
...grant is the second to Harvard from the Ford Foundation this year. In January, $12.5 million was given to develop the University's program in international affairs. This grant will endow nine new professorships and help finance construction of a building to centralize Harvard's now widely-scattered international studies program...
Thomas Boylston bequeathed money to Harvard in 1771 to endow a professorship. The first Boylston Professor. John Quincy Adams, was appointed...