endowment
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He also introduced him to the chief of Princeton’s endowment, who invested $10 million in Thrive’s first institutional fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
Their costs are embedded in tuition and fees, endowment income, donor support and government funding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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 new framework aims to resemble the menu of options offered to public-employee pension plans, university endowments and other deep-pocketed institutions that hire firms like BlackRock to manage their money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The first institutions to feel these headwinds have been lesser-known colleges with nominal endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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
That is translating into boards ill-prepared for tough choices, said Laura MacDonald, who runs Benefactor Group, a company that helps institutions build and preserve endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Even more than of these good and lovely endowments, he is the God of Light, in whom is no darkness at all, and so he is the God of Truth.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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The Glass Menagerie
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