Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their paradoxical benefactor was Louisiana's Huey Long, who had simpler notions of salvation. From the millions lavished by Huey to endow Louisiana State University with a nonpareil stadium, football team and campus, three ex-Rhodes scholars, named Robert Penn Warren, then 29, Cleanth Brooks Jr., 28, and Charles W. Pipkin, 35, managed in 1935 to get a cut of $10,000 a year for a quarterly review...
...herbarium holds 57,000 specimens, and the Ames gift also included an orchid library of 1,800 volumes, and a sum of $68,000 to endow a curatorship. Professor Ames has been a member of the Harvard staff since 1899, with the rank of full professor since...