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Saturday, November 27, 2004

BLOG THAT METAPHOR!


A University Diaries Series...

...whose title varies slightly the title of a series that used to appear in the New Yorker, "Block That Metaphor!"






ROMP, BLOSSOM, DWARF

From today's New York Times, Strings Attached: Givers and Colleges Clash on Spending:

"In the four decades since Charles and Marie D. Robertson gave Princeton $35 million to prepare graduate students for government service, the gift has romped through a series of investments and blossomed into a $600 million fund that dwarfs the entire endowments of most other universities."