endowment
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There’s the investment manager of the endowment at Washington University in St. Louis who plunked down $50 million into SpaceX External link nearly a decade ago, which is now worth in excess of $1 billion.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
There’s the investment manager of the endowment at Washington University in St. Louis who plunked down $50 million into SpaceX External link nearly a decade ago, which is now worth in excess of $1 billion.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Today, roughly 90% of the $56.9 billion endowment is managed externally.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
As at many elite schools, income from the endowment is Harvard’s biggest single source of operating revenue, providing more than a third of the school’s $6.7 billion in operating dollars last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 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
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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The Glass Menagerie
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