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Harvard officials announced Friday that the University raked in $651 million in the most recent fiscal year, a number that represents the second largest annual fundraising total in history and is six percent higher than the previous year?...
...Harvard’s most recent total was aided by a number of large donations, most notably a $100 million gift from David Rockefeller ’36—the largest ever from an alumnus—to fund international programs and the arts...
...Harvard Law School’s capital campaign also boosted the total by $54 million. That campaign, which ended in June and is the largest in the history of legal education, “is expected to have exceeded its $400 million goal,” according to Harvard’s fundraising announcement last week...
...Indeed, though Harvard upped its payout this year to $1.6 billion, its highest total ever, the payout rate as a portion of the endowment was just 4.6 percent...
...where his literary betters failed. His was, after all, an age when almost every major intellectual had fallen under the insidious spell of either Stalin or Mussolini, when arcane arch-modernists like Ezra Pound were flirting with fascism and when Sartre would infamously declare, “There is total freedom of criticism in the U.S.S.R.” It is not difficult to understand, then, why an appalled and battered public found inspiration in Solzhenitsyn’s courageous if artless novels; many even recoiled from the labyrinthine self-indulgences of more “profound” writers.One...