Major donations to colleges

Usage examples of endowments.

Ambroise, who had great mental endowments and a real genius for commerce.

That which she had chosen for her oldest child, the young poet, was either a remarkable prophecy, or it had brought with it the endowments it promised.

That he was a man of extraordinary endowments and deep spiritual nature was not questioned, nor that be was a most acute reasoner, who could unfold a proposition into its consequences as patiently, as convincingly, as a palaeontologist extorts its confession from a fossil fragment.