endowment
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It has sold property, rented out dorms, trimmed a third of its faculty, cut courses and about doubled its endowment withdrawals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Harvard credits its strong endowment returns to such investments, which are 77% of its portfolio; only 14% is in public equities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Families earning $85,000 would pay a total of nearly $77,000 over four years at a private college subject to the endowment tax.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
Support also came from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics through an endowment from the Kavli Foundation and its founder Fred Kavli.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
Baker & Inglis, with an impressive physical plant but a small endowment, wasn’t averse to increasing enrollment.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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The Glass Menagerie
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