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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Childs. The cost of the Drexel Institute in site, buildings and equipment has been $500,000. This Mr. Drexel has paid with but one proviso - that everything used in construction and equipment should be the best procurable. In addition Mr. Drexel has given securities to the amount of a million. The result is that the edifice is without an equal in the world. The institute will take boys and girls and give them a practical education and one that is not too much like a specialist's. The pupils on leaving will be well equipped to begin life and will...
...University of Texas is well provided for. It has an endowment of over 2,300,000 acres of land, besides a half million dollars in bonds...
...expense would be more than repaid by the relief and assistance it would give to the navy; [a] hundreds of ships available for our navy would be added to our Merchant Marine; [b] at a cost of only 2 to 7 million dollars annually: Cong. Rec., Jan. 11, 1891, pp. 1153-4; Dec. 19, 1890, p. 639; Feb. 28, 1891, pp. 3854-55. Report on Merchant Marine...
...average, on less than that amount. Statistics show that the average man spends one-half of his income for food. Now if each man wastes five cents a day by bad methods of cooking, etc., the total waste for the United States in one year would amount to twelve million dollars, and the saving of this waste would mean the solving of the whole problem of shelter for the masses...
...year. This sum is to be raised, if possible, from one-half of the seven thousand living graduates, who, it is expected, will make annual contributions in sums of five dollars to one thousand. "This is the income," the pamphlet states "at five per cent. on more than two million dollars, and would increase the present income of the University and all its departments by more than one-quarter...