Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group received a parting gift from the Cabot dining hall: two large boxes of food...
Each year, literally hundreds of members of the graduating class volunteer for the job of soliciting senior gift funds, the contributions from each senior which mark their transition to alums. The sheer size of the giving committee is impressive; in addition to class co-captains and a steering board, each house has a class agent who in turn supervises an army of house representatives who together contact each member of the Class of 1997 to ask for his or her gift. It is not surprising that this committee of seniors is so large: at a time when many...
...just about to rethink my original reaction when about this time there was a groundswell of opinion among a group of seniors (and underclass students filled with impressive forethought) who raised these very questions about the senior gift. As a result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both...
...come as good as it can be, our support will continue to be contingent on you making progress in the areas where progress is so desperately needed. Of course, money in escrow is still money raised. No doubt, the range of progressive causes espoused by the alternative senior gift committee--from curriculum reform to fair labor practices--will give some students, who would otherwise not have contributed, the incentive to write a check. Once tenure standards are met, this money would go to the administration, having earned interest in the meantime while also attracting new donors. In this view...
...denying that we want to give back to Harvard. It is unsettling for many of us who have worked for change on campus over the course of out time here to make a purely unrestricted gift to the College in good conscience after having dealt firsthand with many slow-to-change policies over the years. We are not asking for miracles--it is certainly not too much to ask to have the composition and talents of the Faculty reflect the composition and needs of the student body--but we hope that by not simply giving blindly into...