Word: wealthiest
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Columbia is the wealthiest of American Universities, and Harvard comes next with property valued at something less than $8,000,000 and a yearly income amounting...
Cornell is one of the wealthiest universities in the country, and if she received the Fiske estate, amounting to several millions, she will probably have a heavier endowment than any other institution of learning in America...
Jonas G. Clark, one of the wealthiest men in central Massachusetts, has signified his intention to found and endow a university in this city, which ambitious scheme shall not fall behind Yale or Harvard. It has been hinted about town for several weeks that Mr. Clark had in contemplation some great gift for the city, but the public did not learn what it really is until to-day, when a petition was filed in the legislature, asking for a special act of incorporation for the Clark University. This petition asks for an act of incorporation establishing at Worcester an institution...
Important information from the Yale News: "Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore, is said to be the wealthiest unmarried lady in this country. She inherits one-third of her father's enormous fortune. She is twenty-eight years...
Girard College, one of the wealthiest educational institutions in the country, is perhaps the least known of any in its internal working, nor is it generally known that it possesses the most beautiful and costly of college buildings. The chief college building is the most magnificent and durable structure in the United States. It is built after the model of a Grecian temple. It resembles the Parthenon, with a peristyle of thirty-six columns, whose cost was about $13,000 each. The cella or body of the building is 111 feet wide and 169 feet long. This one structure cost...