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...idea of a grave site at Stanford was suggested to Reagan by his old friend and political adviser W. Glenn Cambell, the director of Hoover Institution, a right-leaning think tank at Stanford...
Because for nearly two centuries, the University has remembered the Revolutionary War spy by maintaining his grave, which is located outside Paris. And every year since the Count died in 1815, a Harvard official has sent Rumford's gravekeeper a $50 check to ensure that the ignominious American's tomb does not fall into disrepair...
Tending Rumford's burial plot does not signal a long-standing University policy of granting amnesty to past Benedict Arnolds'. Instead, Harvard agreed to maintain the traitor's grave in perpetuity after he bequeathed to them an endowed chair in the physical and mathematical sciences...
Clearly, the Count Rumford grave is the University's least used and most unusual property holding. The Count, who was born Benjamin Thompson of Concord, New Hampshire, attended lectures on experimental philosophy at Harvard in the mid-18th century. After spying on America and defecting to England, Rumford conducted pioneering work in the caloric theory of heat. He later served the Bavarian government, receiving the title Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire...
...cluster suicides, notes Charlotte Ross, executive director of the Youth Suicide National Center, "people grossly underestimate the grief reaction" of adolescents to the deaths of their friends. Lisa Burress, for example, had dated Joe Major for six months before his death and was still skipping classes to visit his grave half a year after he died...