December 8, 2006
Court Hears Arguments Over Gift to Princeton
A $35-million gift made 45 years ago is now worth $750-million. But the donors want it back. Princeton University is fighting to keep it.
Now the two sides are renewing their long-running legal battle, in what has become one of the most closely watched donor disputes in higher education.
The lawsuit was filed in 2002 by the children of the late donors, Charles S. and Marie H. Robertson, who gave Princeton the $35-million anonymously in 1961 for its Woodrow Wilson School of
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