endowment
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Even Harvard’s endowment was revealed to hold $2.2 billion in SpaceX shares as of the end of the second quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Many Church of England clergy independently owned slaves, and a recent report by the Church's endowment fund reported the institution made large investments in the slave trade from which it made huge sums of money.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The auditor recommended that the school “seek retroactive approval from the Illinois Attorney General for the endowment borrowings.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
She asked Notre Dame for the $30,000 endowment, which under the terms of the gift could only be used to support the scholarship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
According to the linguistic school currently on top, human beings are all born with a genetic endowment for recognizing and formulating language.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The percentage of schools drawing down endowments at 15% tripled to 5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The wealthiest universities can offset tuition costs with large endowments, making many of them more affordable than smaller, lesser-known colleges with fewer resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
College leaders are cutting programs, laying off faculty—and digging into endowments to pay operating expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The moves signal a more aggressive effort by Gulf governments to generate returns from their natural-resource endowments, the ratings agency says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In the north, in fact, the areas with the poorest natural endowments and the greatest susceptibility to drought were the most populous and successful.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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The Glass Menagerie
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