Prince Alwaleed's donation to St. John's, which a university spokesman said was to support a multicultural lecture series, seems like a pittance given the multibillion-dollar fortune that he commands.
The purpose of the fund is to support an annual lecture in global justice, or public international, human rights or comparative law, by a distinguished individual who is not a citizen of and does not reside in, the United States.
The USAFA superintendent, Lieutenant General Jay Silveria, rounded up 4,000 cadets and 1,500 support staff for a lecture on what went down this week, telling the crowd they "should be outraged" by what happened.
(Scientists discovered later that Pangea fragmented early in the Jurassic Period.) Wegener presented the idea of continental drift and some of the supporting evidence in a lecture in 1912, followed by his major published work, The Origin of Continents and Oceans (1915).
Theodore B. Olson, the prominent Washington lawyer and former Solicitor General in the George W. Bush Administration, supports an annual lecture at the Federalist Society, to honor his late wife, Barbara, who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In an e-mail to Whitman College students, Director of Studies Cole Crittenden said that the time commitment shouldn't exceed 15 minutes per week and that no academic support, such as attending a lecture or doing a senior's homework, would be permitted.
The autobiography includes some passing references to slavery and a revealing contemporary episode: Twain goes to a lecture supporting Booker T Washington's Tuskegee Institute and comments the next morning that although he'd met Washington many times before, he'd never realised that he was mixed race and had blue eyes: "How unobservant a dull person can be.
Accordingly, he said, he was toying with the idea of a play whose entire first act would be a lecture in support of moral philosophy.
Short audio or video clips can help illustrate a key point in a lecture, or support an argument in a presentation or media assignment.
