“I feel that money is going to the benefit of Amherst College, in any event,” Mr. MacNaughton said. His school, which was also the site of protests, had a decline in donor participation but a rise in giving. PhotoThe older generation remembers Lord Amherst not as a genocidal warmonger, but as the inspiration for a beloved college fight song, written by a member of the class of 1906. A Princeton spokesman, John Cramer, said there was no evidence the drop was connected to campus protest. “He hated the Indians, because any general in his position would have,” said Gordon Hall III, class of ’52, a commercial real estate investor.

Source: New York Times August 04, 2016 12:33 UTC