BIG GIFT

Princeton University has received a pledge of $101-million, from Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive insurance company, The New York Times reports. The money will be used to expand the institution’s creative and performing arts activities, the newspaper said. Mr. Lewis, one of the nation’s most generous philanthropists, attracted attention when he resigned from the board of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum last year because he said he disagreed with the institution’s direction, the newspaper notes. He also withheld money from nonprofit groups in Cleveland when he was trying to put pressure on Case Western Reserve University’s to cut its spending.