Word: millions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plan for raising an endowment fund of a quarter of a million dollars, with the hope that when it should be offered to the Corporation of Harvard College a union of some sort would be effected, has not yet had a definite result, the contributions so far falling short of the sum contemplated...
...Rockefeller has promised to contribute one million dollars to augment the endowment on condition that an equal sum is raised among the friends and alumni of the institution...
...given $150,000 to the University of Chicago in order that Martin A. Ryerson's gift of $100,000 conditional on the raising of $400,000 more, might become available. About $100,000 had been raised already, so that there remains but $150,000 to complete the half million dollars needed as an equipment fund. The money must be secured by July 1, or the Ryerson and Rockfeller gifts will be lost to the university...
...will of the late Joseph Spinney of Brooklyn, Wesleyan University is bequeathed nearly a million dollars...
Athens has lately completed a magnificent academy building of Pentelican marble, costing a million dollars, given by a wealthy Greek merchant. The building has a well-equipped university with a complete school system...