Private benevolence applied to public purpose was loudly praised in the 1780s, and Louis XVI's finance minister, Jacques Necker (1732 1804), did a great deal for his reputation by endowing a hospital for sick children, which stands to this day.
He used some of his fortune for charities, endowing a children's village in Mozambique, a prize for political theatre in Sweden, and another for writing about the north of the country, where he had spent much of his childhood.
In October 2011, her parents, Thomas and Nadia Davies, donated $2 million to UCLA for epilepsy research, endowing a chair in Crandall's honor.
Although Li has a story-writer's talent for endowing characters with a full life in a few paragraphs, some remain tantalisingly sketchy.
She was also facing an inquiry into charges that she had contacted a developer to arrange a housing contract in return for the developer's endowing a chair that Dr. Hitchcock would fill once she left the presidency.
But she was also facing an ethics inquiry into charges that she had contacted a developer to arrange a deal: a housing contract in return for the developer's endowing a chair at the university that Dr. Hitchcock would fill once she left the presidency.
Two other brochures were produced to be available for fundraising purposes in September 1995: a case for endowing undergraduate scholarships and an overview of the School of Science.
His estate will be endowing a Scholarship for Strings at Brown University.
An avid reader with a profound hearing problem, Smith thought about endowing a school for the deaf — but was beaten to the punch when another opened in New England first.
He had already given large sums to his alma mater, and he told Sullivan that he and his wife had an exciting new idea: endowing a center for yoga.
But they also affirm life in ways that are funny, mocking, sad and often strikingly beautiful: ways that come naturally to someone from Georgia, a small country in the Caucasus mountains that even in the darkest Soviet times was known for endowing its inhabitants with a strong visual sensibility and a vivid sense of humor.
