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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...
...scored a runaway victory, capturing the team trophy with a total of 94 points. Wisconsin finished in second, totalling 142 points, with Iona coming in third with a score of 173. The Harvard indoor track and field team will begin its season on Dec. 2, hosting Boston College at Gordon track. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
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...