I'm a little behind the times in mentioning this New York Times story about Glenn Hutchins' gift of $15 million to Harvard to create the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research. It's believed to be the biggest gift ever to an African American studies program. Those of us in Chapel Hill like to recall that Mr. Hutchins also funds the Hutchins Lecture at UNC's Center for the Study of the American South in honor of his father, James A. Hutchins, a UNC alumnus. One of the recent Hutchins lectures was on jurisprudence at UNC before the War (wink).
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