Word: gift
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Legend states that Duke offered the gift to Princeton University if its trustees would agree to change the school's name. They refused this offer, but Trinity accepted...
...change the University's name, the interest on a renaming gift must at least cover the loss in donations each year...
Assuming an average annual return of 5 percent, a gift of $8 billion should cover all losses in annual donations to the University...
Using the aforementioned highly sophisticated (arbitrary) formulaic procedure, the total estimated value of a gift to rename the University, given the scarcity of previous calculations of this nature, would be the $8 billion due to loss of donations combined with the total value of $115 billion inherent in the Harvard name, yielding a grand total...
...Alternative Senior Gift Fund (ASGF) is a good idea for both the students and the University. The money ASGF collects will be held in escrow until University hiring practices comply with the request put forth in a 1971 report to have a proportional number of women and minority faculty members to the number of women and minority Ph.D.s. The fund will provide seniors with another option for donation to the University while at the same time allowing them to speak out in favor of increased hiring of female and minority faculty. Students who choose to donate money to the College...