Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fenn, of Chicago...
...number of students the first ten universities in the country rank as follows: Harvard, Michigan, U. of Penn., U. of Minn., Yale, U. of Cal., Columbia, Chicago, Cornell...
...Fenn, of Chicago...
...Fenn, of Chicago...
...bequests in the last three years was something above half a million, while "during the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments." The enormous single gifts to Columbia and the youthful but rich University of Chicago throw the benefactions to Harvard into insignificance. In the recent gift of a million dollars to Columbia that institution received almost twice as much at a single time as all Harvard's gifts and bequests for the last three years amount to. The enormous benefactions by single individuals in recent years...