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Pusey cited Harvard's situation as an example of the financial problems confronting most colleges and universities. Although the University is the wealthiest in the country from the standpoint of endowment, he observed that this was not necessarily true in terms of its operating costs. Operating expenses last year came to nearly $42,000,000, while contributions from corporations and corporate foundations during the same period totalled only...
...looked down on the Gujaratis, who by caste and occupation were shopkeepers. But the British conquered the warriors and encouraged the shopkeepers. The proud Maharashtrians became the laborers of India's West Coast; the Gujaratis gradually gained control of the business life of Bombay, the nation's wealthiest, most modern and second-biggest city. The Maharashtrians, who outnumber the Gujaratis in the city two to one, work for them and dislike them...
Scholar's Prince. What called Fra Angelico away from San Domenico was the triumphant return from political exile on Oct. 6, 1434 of Cosimo de' Medici, the wealthiest banker of his day, munificent benefactor and art patron whose scholarly passions and political adroitness made Florence the foremost city of the Renaissance. Cosimo's rule created for Florence an interval of peace and poise in which a man could aspire to make a balanced masterpiece of his life. As the outward expression of this, Cosimo set to work on a program to make Florence the wonder of Europe...
...anything definite can be said about the revolutionary's hero, himself, John Reed it is that he simply was not a product of any institution, let alone Harvard. He came to Cambridge in 1906, a product of a proper Eastern prep school and one of the wealthiest families in Oregon. During the fourteen years following, he had graduated, spent months in jail, become a famous American war correspondent, written several books, taken a leading part in the Russian revolution, been elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, died of typhus in Russia, and been buried...
...Administration has one explanation for the present discrepancy between a room's price and its desirability. If freshmen got exactly what they paid for, the argument runs, all the wealthiest men would be living in such new dormitories as Wigglesworth, and all the poorer ones in buildings like Matthews and Hollis. In order to make each dormitory representative of the whole class, it is necessary to put some freshmen in less desirable rooms, even though they pay higher rents. This argument would be valid if its promise were true that is, if each dormitory did contain an economic cross section...