Word: million
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Leyden University, in Holland, is the richest in the world. Its real estate alone is said to be worth four million dollars...
...abroad of education in any part of the world whatsoever. Such affection would ill befit us above all others, since we enjoy the highest of such advantages for learning. But we think more discretion might be observed in the manner of employing such an amount of money. If this million and a half had been given to some of the struggling universities in the West or with it a new one had been founded out there where the advantages are fewer it strikes us that more real good might have been accomplished. As it is, within a few miles...
...regularly published, although the law does not require this. Among other advantages, it tends to encourage large bequests to the college. Mr. Bussey left a certain amount of real estate to the college with the provision that it should never be sold. It amounts to about half a million of dollars. It is an advantage as a rule for a benefactor of the college not to prescribe any definite investment for his gift, since the value of it may depreciate. Sometimes there has been a considerable deficit in the accounts of the college, but this is not to be feared...
Owing to lack of space in yesterday's issue, the clauses of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf's will relating to Harvard could not be published till to-day. The amount left to Harvard College is now reported to be one million dollars...
...been estimated that the salaries of professional base-ball players in the United States amount to more than one million dollars a year...