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...lowest since 1989. Fundraising from Harvard alumni still showed signs of strength last year, including a $41 million reunion donation from the Class of 1981. More than three-quarters of the class contributed to that fund drive, which set records as Harvard’s largest 25th reunion gift, according to Charles W. Cardillo ’91, the executive director of the Harvard College Fund. And the University continued to rake in sizable gifts last year—many from donors who are not alumni—propelling its annual total to $595 million, up $5 million from...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Giving Rate Hits 17-Year Low | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67; Undergraduate Council (UC) President John S. Haddock ’07; and Women’s Center Director Susan B. Marine. Students who won tickets at the games were able to cash them in for prizes like DVDs, $200 gift certificates to the Coop and stuffed animals. With pop music blaring in the background, students munched on caramel apples, cotton candy, popcorn, corn dogs, and cheeseburgers as they convened on the grass or on Widener and Memorial Church steps. “I’m just having fun dancing...

Author: By Doris A. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Camp Harvard Closes With Cash-Infused Carnival | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...have not been released. In both the 2004 and 2005 fiscal years, Douglass gave between $1,867 and $2,499 to the School of Dental Medicine, according to annual reports posted on the school’s website. The reports do not mention Douglass’s million-dollar gift to the school, but his name is emblazoned on a plaque in the lobby of the new 60,000-square-foot research and education building at 190 Avenue in Boston. On the plaque Douglass and his wife, Joy, are listed as one of six benefactors giving $1 million or more...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof in Fluoride Flap Gave $1M to Harvard | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) organizations will now face a University-levied tax on the tax-deductible money that they receive from donors—a policy that affects student groups that hold gift accounts through Harvard...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U-Hall Dips Into Student Groups’ Funds | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...questions were not reserved only for the Islamic world. As he has done before, Benedict spoke about the need for the West, especially Europe, to reverse its tendency toward godless secularism. He believes that the gift of reason that he cherishes in Christianity has been warped by the West into an absolutist doctrine. And that too, he believes, prevents the opening of a productive channel for dialogue with a more faithful Islamic society. "Reason and faith," he insisted, must "come together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: The Pope Has a Point | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

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