Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dear Dean Lewis, Dean Knowles and President Rudenstine: They say that alums really hold sway over fair Harvard. And the Senior Gift people said that if I really wanted to effect change, I should donate to the University and write letters to the top brass. So I write you today, as an alumnus and modest donor, with the hope that these new-found designations hold you interest better than my role as a squawking newspaper writer...
...experience is upon us. The world awaits. But before we go, let us take a last look around, at the many faces of Harvard. We are better people than we were four years ago--because we have learned to see ourselves in each other. That is Harvard's gift. We must keep it with us, always...
...University will today announce a gift of $18 million for the creation of a new center at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) dedicated to the study of human rights. The donation, the biggest ever by a KSG graduate, is one of a number of recent large gifts that appear to be clinching the overall success of the University's $2.1 billion capital campaign in its final six months...
Gregory C. Carr--the former chair of Prodigy, Inc. and a 1986 graduate of KSG--pledged $18 million in conjunction with his foundation to help start the new human rights center, which will bear his name. The gift will provide the center with an endowment and money to pay for facilities and a professorship...
...there is a second view of Harvard that only infrequently finds its way onto the editorial page but is commonly voiced in the dining halls and by senior gift representatives. We are Harvard, says this view; Harvard is its students. Those who take this view do not usually dispute the litany of institutional complaints voiced by the first group, but seek to de-emphasize them. Sure, it's annoying that the institution with the $11 billion endowment is too cheap to pay for a student center, or even a decent Springfest band. But Harvard rightly remains...