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It’s not so much an indictment, then, as it is an observation: for all we invest in the importance of student government, it might be capable of accomplishing very, very little, given an institution so slow to change and a student body that often can’t be bothered, wrapped up in its own business, perhaps as it should...
Third, they want to engage students in shaping the spending priorities of the College by developing a student-led $10-million investment plan. Harvard’s endowment grew by 19.2 percent last year, bringing the endowment’s overall value to $25.9 billion. Tom and Magnus want Harvard to invest in undergraduates. Their vision is for students and student groups to identify spending priorities—such as a student center or bike lanes in the Yard—and present a comprehensive investment plan to the College administration. As a community, we could change the campus forever...
...INVEST IN THE FUTURE...
...promising land and get him to lease you the rights, then find an oil company willing to drill. Van Dyke hitchhiked to Fort Worth and Dallas to make his first deals. "I had about $500 to my name," he says. "I slept in whorehouses." He had no capital to invest in drilling, so he put the farmers and the oil companies together, typing the contracts on a portable typewriter on the hood of his rental car. His strength was making a deal look good, or as friend and fellow oilman Denny Bartell says, he had an ability to "powder...
...contributions from donors who are not alumni.But Rapier said the declining alumni participation does not reflect a change in strategy to land larger gifts and target non-alumni.“New areas of focus for Harvard development are being done by new staff, while we continue to invest in the Harvard College Fund and our other annual fund efforts,” Rapier said in an e-mail.A NOT-SO-TAXING DECISIONHarvard could see an uptick in donations through the end of the year as the result of a tax provision passed by Congress in the wake...