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Half will endow need-based scholarships, and the other $5 million will help Tougaloo students at Brown University, an Ivy League school in Rhode Island, Sandra Hodge, Tougaloo’s vice president of institutional advancement, told the newspaper.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2022

If Facebook accepts its rulings, as it has pledged to do, as well as the board’s broader guidance, the company will endow this obscure panel with a new kind of legitimacy.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2021

Augusta National recognizes Lee Elder and will endow two scholarships at a historically Black college in his name and cover its golf programs’ costs.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2020

The gift, announced last week, will endow three faculty chairs in the sciences, fund research grant proposals and support the creation of an environment initiative program center.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2012

Give but your assent, old man, and not only will I render thee young, handsome, and wealthy; but I will endow thy mind with an intelligence to match that proud position.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)