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What Are Endowments For?
Topic Started: Jul 21 2008, 04:18 AM (125 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/educatio...owments.html?hp

I particularly liked this line:

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“How much do you need to save for future generations, and at what point are you gouging today’s generation?” said Lynne Munson, of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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lb1
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Not what I thought it was going to be about.

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My position is simple: you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and slung mud on an issue where none was deserved. Quirt 03/08/09
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
lb1
Jul 21 2008, 06:38 AM
Not what I thought it was going to be about.

lb

Started to say...I dated a girl in high school who was well-endowed...that was my definition of a 36C back in those days...
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
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...whether the wealthiest universities are doing enough for the public good to warrant their tax exemption, or simply hoarding money to serve an elite few.


Good question.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Red Rice
Jul 21 2008, 06:13 AM
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...whether the wealthiest universities are doing enough for the public good to warrant their tax exemption, or simply hoarding money to serve an elite few.


Good question.

Is there one?
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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