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...case of legacies, we grant that Harvard's private status gives it the right to bless its alumni with prestigous degrees for their children. But understand that Harvard remains loyal to its alums only because they reward their alma mater with financial gifts, or what the admissions statement euphemistically called "scholarship funds...
...hundreds more. Faculty members hostile to $ his vision were dismissed or strongly encouraged to leave. During his six-year tenure some 100 have departed, including a basketball coach who was hustled out by security guards for failing to stand at attention during the singing of the school alma mater. "I expurgated them through a vast variety of methods," says Clark, savoring his idiosyncratic polysyllables...
...leave from the firm of Dillon, Read & Co. to tour his family's ancestral homeland, Germany. Deeply disturbed by what he saw of Adolf Hitler's rule, he returned home -- but not to the world of high finance and private wealth. Instead, he went back to his alma mater, Harvard, to study history, sociology and philosophy: "There were big issues, big questions, big problems in the world. $ I wanted to come to terms with them. I couldn't do that making money...
...your net worth suddenly dropped 50 percent, you might be reluctant to give your alma mater a few million dollars this Christmas," said Cornell's Sanderson...
Last year Cloud had resigned as executive editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and returned to Washington to write a novel. But Cloud, a TIME correspondent from 1968 to 1978, responded positively when his alma mater asked him for an encore. "He writes, edits and reports, as well as manages people splendidly," says Talbott. "On a scale of one to ten, Stan's a twelve." Says Cloud: "This job meets my main criterion for journalistic employment...