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More student riots = fewer alumni gifts. () True () False
...While private campuses have never been so in need of alumni cash, alumni have never been so angry at protesters. By last week, enough checks had come in so that fund raisers finally knew which box to check. At most campuses, the donation trend is surprisingly upward. There are fewer gifts, but the sums are bigger than ever...
Vote of Confidence. Troubled Harvard is getting fewer gifts, but more money. A preliminary accounting showed that Harvard College had received a new high of $3.4 million-$87,-000 more than last year. Dartmouth's 50th-reunion class ('19) produced what is expected to be a record sum for the class. Fund Chairman Richard Lombard also reported a "financial vote of confidence" by some Dartmouth men who had refused to contribute for as long as five years. Denver University's Chan cellor Maurice Mitchell, who expelled 39 sit-in demonstrators last year, recently inspired a torrent...
...main problem may be enforcement. No fewer than nine federal agencies share responsibility for finding and prosecuting violators, who may be fined up to $5,000 and jailed as long as a year. In addition, a victim may sue for twice the amount of any misrepresented finance charge and collect damages up to $1,000, plus court costs. The heaviest enforcement burden will fall on the Federal Trade Commission. FTC of ficials complain that "Z" will force their agency to regulate 1 ,500,000 more businesses without a penny of extra appropriations from Congress...
...bear comparison with it. Playing Leonard Lyons to the age, Prescott not only misses the central drama but often seems to substitute bizarre performance for more illuminating characterization. Perhaps it is simply that there are too many characters: in a book that revolves around famous families, there are no fewer than 29 d'Estes, 23 Sforzas, 23 Gonzagas...