Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, Yale has been one of the most prominent universities to consistently turn down money. About two years later, the Daily News reported on gay rights activist Larry Kramer's unsuccessful bid to establish a chair in gay and lesbian studies. Kramer, a 1957 Yale alumnus, also offered to build a gay and lesbian student center. Yale's answer...
Yale has had long practice in saying no to large sums of money. 1897 graduate Edward S. Harkness offered Yale money to establish a House system. Guess what Yale said...
Harkness instead donated money to Harvard. Yale later backtracked, and Harkness helped establish Yale's current residential college system...
...recent years, many prominent American universities have drawn criticism for accepting money from Turkish sources--including business people and the Turkish government--to establish professorships in Turkish studies...
Margaret B. Alexiou is happy with the fact that Harvard gets money from different places. After all, she points out, as Seferis Chair of Modern Greek she holds a chair entirely funded by Greek monies, including academic foundations...