Harvard is noted for employing professors that like the government handing out money in the form of Pell grants and students loans which wind up in Harvard's pocket. Harvard also doesn't have a problem taking money from important American fascists. Harvard graduate Thomas Lamont financed Mussolini and gave Harvard a whole lot of money.Historian John P. Diggins describes Lamont's financial support for Mussolini in his scholarly book Mussolini and Fascism- the View From America (page 148):
The fascist banker and Harvard graduate Thomas Lamont has a library proudly named after him at Harvard. Your typical Harvard professor would have a problem if Harvard named a library after a prominent evangelical Christian or a libertarian: but not a fascist.
Though not the most voluble business spokesman for the Italian government, Lamont was clearly the most valuable. For it was he who translated verbal apologetics into hard cash, securing for Mussolini a $100,000,000 loan in 1926.
