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Back then, public broadcasting and the national endowments for the Arts and Humanities were (rightly) taken to task as mechanisms for transferring money from working-class families to a handful of elite subversives in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles.
Once accused of colluding to keep tuition high, the Ivies are now sitting atop outsized endowments and could start using generous financial aid packages to compete for students.
[T]he magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.
The WSJ reports that thanks to the raging bull market, just last year six colleges and universities--Grinnell (!), Brown, Purdue, Minnesota, Rochester, and Caltech--joined the ranks of schools with billion dollar endowments.
In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.