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...necessarily, says Law Professor John Wade of Vanderbilt University, who helped write the model statute on which the New York law is based. Unless the motorman was guilty of gross recklessness, Wade contends, no jury would blame him. "Even if there was some negligence on the part of the subway driver," he says, jurors would cut the award "down to practically nothing...
Walsh added that other colleges, including MIT and Vanderbilt, are interested in the operation of Harvard's escort service, and "so there must be an advantage to a service like ours," he said...
...that whites went to other colleges, leaving Fisk with little financial support for its student body of freed slaves. Over the years, the money problems have hardly become easier: Fisk's present endowment is a mere $3.1 million, in contrast with about $250 million for its rich neighbor, Vanderbilt University. Even so, Fisk has built a distinguished record. It was the first black college to be endorsed by the Association of American Universities, and its alumni include Philosopher W.E.B. Du Bois and Historian John Hope Franklin...
That night, the Auld Mug was unbolted from its pedestal at the New York Yacht Club's Manhattan mansion and taken to Newport by armored truck. Next day, at Marble House, former summer home ("cottage," in local parlance) of Harold Vanderbilt, himself an America's Cup legend, the unlovely pitcher was presented to its new owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept...
...Americans believe that a superior educational system is "very important" to the nation, while only 47% believe that a strong military force is as important. "There is now considerable resolve to see reform through to the end," says Chester Finn, a professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University. Yet he warns, "These changes will take some years, and when they happen they will be characteristically American, which is to say, uneven