Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lived in a little wooden house, his only companion being a trusted servant, and his principal food was produced in his own garden, which he and his servant managed together. It was known that he was possessed of a large fortune, and that it was his wish to endow Harvard, but the exact disposition of his property is not known. Mr. Greenleaf died at his residence on Saturday, at the advanced age of ninety-six years...
Certain gentlemen offered to endow at Yale a chair of lectures on Protection. The Philosophical faculty, before whom the matter properly came, referred the matter in proper order to the Presidential Committee of the corporation, which body accepted the endowment and authorized the Philosophical Faculty to establish the course of lectures, which they have done, much to the satisfaction of the whole university, which is never more anxious to hear both sides than are the faculty to give the opportunity...
Cornell University has recently received and accepted $60,000 to endow a professorship of ethics and moral philosophy. The gift is from the Hon. Henry W. Sage, who founded the Sage Female College, connected with Cornell University...
...want for Harvard College, to place her professors and other insturctors on a proper footing, just to them and creditable and secure for us, $60,000 more per annum, or something over $1,000,000; and now is the opportunity you New Yorkers have been longing for to endow your alma mater...
That somebody should endow a fund, as Mr. Henry Seybert of Philadelphia has recently done, for investigating Spiritualism is not so very surprising. Spiritualism is by no means the least plausible of current beliefs; and, even if it were such, rich men would be as liable as any one else to credulity over it. When so sober-minded a body of men, however, as the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania should think of accepting Mr. Seybert's fund, and undertaking the investigation, it is a decidedly noteworthy event. The action of the University brings into prominence two facts about...