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Librarians for Scoreboards

2016-09-14 16:46:06.629903+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

How The University Of New Hampshire Chose To Waste An Alum's $4m Gift. Librarian gives four million bucks, university spends a million of it on a scoreboard for their stadium:

... The university tried to justify the purchase of the new scoreboard by claiming that Morin became a football fanatic while he was in an assisted living home during the last year and a half of his life. ...

I've long thought that a love of football and dementia were related.

Via Sensible Endowment.

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