Playing devil’s advocate is a great antidote to this article.

I also agree that Harvard doesn’t need any more money, but…

You notice something in that article, which is that Harvard is almost twice the size of the next largest school in that article’s list of richest schools per student. The undergraduate part of Harvard is extremely small and exclusive. Griffin gave the money to the graduate school of arts and sciences, which is actively building the capacity to serve more students. They’re building what is effectively a second campus on the Boston side of the river, with even more land than they have in Cambridge.