Big-name schools get the big bucks.Gay and lesbian philanthropists continue to give their alma maters huge endowments for gay studies and related causes. In the latest instance, New Yorker Doug Roby, who died in January at age 56, willed as much as $2 million to Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Legislature. The College is instructed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which also instructs the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Library, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. his estate's executor, the Rev. John Patti Boyer. The funds will be used to collect "materials, books, and literature that reflect a positive view of gay life," Boyer said. Harvard joins the swelling ranks of colleges and universities that have accepted multimillion-dollar endowments from openly gay and lesbian alumni in the past year, including the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. , Dartmouth College, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . |
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