Word: grosse
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...This is devastating,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said in an e-mailed statement. “We will all need to pull together as a community in the days ahead, to reaffirm the value of human life, and the ideal of a free University...
Signaling a possible change to what current undergraduates have come to see as a fixture of Harvard life, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said that a handful of upperclassmen may join freshmen as residents of the Yard next year...
...interview on Friday, Gross restated that Mass. Hall’s incarnation as a freshman dorm is likely at an end. Instead, he said, the residential part of the 286-year-old building will probably be used for overflow and emergency housing for upperclassmen...
There was another kind of uproar in Philadelphia in November when Thomas Jefferson University announced it was going to sell--for $68 million--one of the touchstones of 19th century American painting, The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, who spent nearly all of his turbulent career in Philadelphia. It didn't help that one of the buyers was Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who wanted it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which she's bankrolling in Bentonville, Ark. This would be the same Alice Walton who paid the New York Public Library about $35 million two years...
...today's market, it will always be tempting to cash out. In March, just as Philadelphia was congratulating itself for managing to keep The Gross Clinic at home, Jefferson University dropped the other shoe. It abruptly announced it would also be selling its two remaining Eakinses, both of them portraits of 19th century physicians who were once on the school's faculty. The weary and tapped-out locals have made no significant move to save those...