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		root_crontab on March 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Thei... It seems like there was a mismatch in expectations that goes to the heart of how universities and philanthropy work. The university thought it was getting a donation, along with some vanity conditions, comparable to naming a building or a chair, which it could fudge while spending the money on whatever it wanted. The foundation thought it was paying the university to carry out something very specific on its behalf.

frandroid on March 6, 2018 [–]

> The university thought it was getting a donation, along with some vanity conditions, comparable to naming a building or a chair, which it could fudge while spending the money on whatever it wanted.

I think it's clear that the conditions were more than vanity, and were actually qualitative.

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