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But with characteristic concern for the rules, Lewis says he had to give the Frothingham this year in accordance with the donor's terms, or else the College might be sued for going against the donor's wishes.
"We don't have many lawsuits for an entity as large as Harvard," says Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor. "We, as an institution, are good at what we do, so we don't [get sued much]."
"Good lawyers have failed if a complaint gets to a lawsuit," she says. "We try hard not to get sued."
But when the University does get sued, it defends itself like a parent bird whose nest has been violated.
Also, in 1998 Harvard settled a suit by an undergraduate who was injured in 1995 when a windowpane fell on her head in the Museum of Comparative Zoology building. Recently, the Harvard Business Review was sued in Federal District Court for using the term "breakthrough thinking," a term trademarked by...