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ONE of the most striking features of the universities of the United States is the wealth of their endowment. During the writer's visit to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example, Harvard University was successfully collecting large sums towards a new building for philosophy in memory of Emerson, and within the last few months has been promised two million dollars by two millionaires towards her new medical school.
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MYERS, C. Cambridge in the Old World and in the New. Nature 68, 572–573 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068572c0
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