Word: forded
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...financial analysts. In December 1979, a Wall Street Journal article stated that Harvard's endowment "has been conservatively run for some period of time." The writer based his conclusion on Harvard's reluctance to join the pack of universities in the early 1970s that followed the recommendation of a Ford Foundation report to begin spending capital gains as well as dividends. Harvard's treasurer at the time, Paul C. Cabot '21, Walter's uncle, refused to spend principal, sparing Harvard a cash squeeze when stocks plunged...
David Riesman, '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Emeritus and president of the Harvard Phi Beta Kapa chapter, also presented the society's first teaching awards to Deborah Hughes Hallett, senior preceptor in Mathematics, and Leonard K. Nash, professor of Chemistry...
...program--established with grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations--is a revised and enlarged version of a program which the School has had for three years...
Citing Laiou's work in the diplomatic and social history of the Byzantine empire, MacCaffrey said. "Though she's a relatively young scholar, she's done work in two very diverse fields." Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, yesterday called Laiou "the best person" for the post, adding, "I am delighted to have her as a colleague...
After receiving his doctorate in political economy and government at Harvard, Ylvisaker went on to each at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Swarthmore. In 1966 he chaired former president Lyndon B. Johnson's Task Force on the Cities. He served as the Ford Foundation's director of public affairs until 1967, and then became New Jersey's first Commissioner of Community Affairs before taking on the dean...