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...American Heritage Dictionary: Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. 2. Harvard: Very, very expensive: “The outcome of the tawdry Shleifer affair and the attending pecuniary loss to the University would have been unthinkable under the previous two presidencies....” (Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., Agassiz professor of zoology, at the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting...
...Across the Atlantic, Britain’s last American representative was William S. Farish, millionaire horse breeder and Bush family friend, perhaps as famous for gifting Bush Senior the White House dog, Millie, as for anything else. Reputedly shy by nature, Farish decided not to hold press conferences for the year preceding the Iraq War and further condemned America’s already abysmal reputation in the British press by refusing to answer journalists’ phone calls. In fact the British public noticed little difference when he left thirteen months ahead of schedule, leaving America’s embassy...
...Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of biology and Agassiz professor of zoology, along with Neil H. Shubin, professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, and Edward B. Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia formed the core group of scientists who made the discovery in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago...
...outcome of the tawdry Shleifer affair...would have been unthinkable—unthinkable—during the last two presidencies, but is all too characteristic of the present malaise,” Agassiz Professor of Zoology Farish A. Jenkins Jr. told Summers at the meeting...
...confidence in your leadership were voted by this Faculty, it is with no small sense of urgency that I stand here to declare that the College and the University are in a state that is much dissembled and patently dire,” said Agassiz Professor of Zoology Farish A. Jenkins...