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...salary statistics come from a new study by The Chronicle of Higher Education and are drawn from schools’ tax filings. The study found that the highest-paid university chief—not including retirement packages for departing administrators—was Vanderbilt President E. Gordon Gee, who earned $1.17 million...
DIED. Lee Gordon, 84, the first U.S. prisoner of war to escape a German camp during World War II; in Menlo Park, Calif. In October 1943, after two failed attempts to flee Stalag VIIA, he used a fake ID tag to enter an outdoor work area, sneaked past a distracted guard and walked away. He reunited with Allies through a French Resistance group, arriving a free man in England a year later. In the 2000 TV documentary Escape from a Living Hell, he recalled stumbling, free, into a French caf: "The waitress walked up to me. I looked...
...leadership style does not entail rallying his teammates with fiery speeches in the locker room or the huddle. His actions define him, and his example holds more weight than any words could.This was made evident to Murphy when the coach and his wife arrived at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Facility for a game of tennis one Saturday afternoon. There they saw Fernandez going through offensive line drills with a group of underclassmen.“I guarantee you there wasn’t another Division I lineman in America doing that on a Saturday afternoon...
...speech was the “Albert H. Gordon Lecture on Finance and Public Policy,” an annual event...
...Kishlansky said. “No one should claim to be an educated person without having studied an era besides the one they lived in.” The panel featured three other academics: Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen, Folger Fund Professor of History Andrew D. Gordon ’74, and Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Studies Mary D. Lewis. The four agreed that though the current Core Curriculum needs to change and that students should be able to select from a larger pool of history courses. Often the department’s most attractive courses...