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...Lemann is the author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
...Derek Bok recognized the significant hindrance of our nonsensical calendar and gave students the gift of a modern schedule,” Staff said. A previous attempt at changing the calendar had failed under Bok’s first term as University president in 1974. Nicholas Lemann ’76, president of The Harvard Crimson in 1975 and current dean of Columbia’s School of Journalism, who reported on that failed endeavor, said it was “a trial balloon that got floated for a minute and never went anywhere...
...Other gifts included $25 million from Brazilian businessman Jorge P. Lemann ’61 to fund Brazilian studies, $15 million from an anonymous donor to fund science programs, $13 million from the estate of television mogul Alan Gleitsman to support social activism at the Harvard Kennedy School, and $10 million each to support the Harvard Divinity School and to fund research on energy and the environment...
...first major donation of University President Drew G. Faust’s tenure, the family of Brazilian billionaire Jorge P. Lemann ’61 has formally endowed Harvard’s year-old Brazil Studies program, the University announced earlier this month...
...That’s the novelty of the program,” Dominguez said. “[Lemann]’s not compelling anybody to work on a topic that they’re not interested in, but if you decide to work in Brazil, he’s making your life a heck of a lot easier...