{"id":40721,"date":"2014-02-20T05:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40721"},"modified":"2014-02-20T05:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:59:38","slug":"hedge-fund-chief-gives-harvard-150m-for-undergrad-scholarships-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/hedge-fund-chief-gives-harvard-150m-for-undergrad-scholarships-aid.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund chief gives Harvard $150M for undergrad scholarships, aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8211; It&#8217;s the largest gift in the nearly 400-year history of Harvard College, a nine-figure sum aimed at giving hundreds of students who win admission &#8220;against long odds&#8221; the means to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The $150 million donation from hedge-fund chieftain Ken Griffin, class of &#8217;89, will fund full scholarships for 200 Harvard undergraduates and provide matching funds for another 600, the university announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/19\/us\/harvard-record-gift\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8211; It&#8217;s the largest gift in the nearly 400-year history of Harvard College, a nine-figure sum aimed at giving hundreds of students who win admission &#8220;against long odds&#8221; the means to attend. The $150 million donation from hedge-fund chieftain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40722,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721\/revisions\/40722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}