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Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann, a reparations activist who filed suit in 2002 against companies she alleges profited from slavery, claims in her suit that “money from the slave trade financed Yale University’s first endowed professorship, its first endowed scholarship, and its first endowed library fund...
Harvard’s tuition increase, announced in March, came in below the average at 4.75 percent growth. Tuition for the 2006-2007 school year is $33,709 per student. Scholarship money grant grew by 6.2 percent this year...
...Henry Louis Gates,” Fletcher said. “Working productively with three Harvard presidents, his collaboration with so many scholars, in so many fields, touching so many students and influencing the world well beyond the academy exemplifies what’s best in the leadership and scholarship of a modern university.”At Fletcher’s request, Harvard removed the suffix “Jr.” a few years ago in order to honor Fletcher’s father, who along with his mother, sent their three sons to the University.Gates serves...
...black coxswain with the heavyweights.Fellow Wilson graduate Aquil Abdullah, the first African-American oarsman to qualify for the Olympics in 2004, is an inspiration to Benkreira and the face of the changes coming to the sport. Abdullah was initially a walk-on at George Washington, where he earned a scholarship after just one semester on the water. He has become one of the most recognizable athletes in a sport known for its anonymity.“As the demographics of Harvard change, the demographics of its sports teams will change,” Benkreira says. “Even though...
...least the next year, his political activities—he’s been a harsh critic of the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program, for example—and scholarship are sure to keep him busy...