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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Theodore B. Wanamaker has given one million dollars to Princeton, the income to be given annually as a prize to students performing the best work in English history and language...
...said that the Koran, which today furnishes spiritual food for two hundred million people, is unique in that it is the work of one man. All other religious books of the same character the work of a long period of years and one of many men working under widely different circumstance. On this account the Koran possesses a greater degree of unity than any of the other gospels. The book consists of one hundred and fourteen divisions or suras. These are arranged arbitrarily, in the order of their length. The suras appeared at different times, as occasion demanded. They were...
Prince Ferdinand has given two million francs towards a national university for Bulgaria...
...million dollars have been subscribed for the erection of a college at Washington, D. C., for the education of Indians...
DePauw University, Indiana, has received a bequest which will amount to two million dollars...