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Engraving of Harvard College by Paul Revere, 1767. Harvard University's endowment was valued at $53.2 billion as of 2021. [1]A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors. [2]
One of the most famous examples of the endowment effect in the literature is from a study by Daniel Kahneman, Jack Knetsch & Richard Thaler, [4] in which Cornell University undergraduates were given a mug and then offered the chance to sell it or trade it for an equally valued alternative (pens).
A topological space is a set endowed with a structure, called a topology, which allows defining continuous deformation of subspaces, and, more generally, all kinds of continuity. Euclidean spaces , and, more generally, metric spaces are examples of a topological space, as any distance or metric defines a topology.
The Endowed Schools Act 1869 [4] (32 & 33 Vict. c. 56) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the Endowed Schools Acts 1869 to 1948 . [ 5 ] It was passed during William Ewart Gladstone ’s first ministry, to restructure endowed grammar schools in England and Wales (one jurisdiction).
This is a list of some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.
For example, Immanuel Kant claimed to derive natural rights through reason alone. The United States Declaration of Independence , meanwhile, is based upon the " self-evident " truth that "all men are ... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
Kit Hung, an artist and filmmaker in his 40s from Hong Kong, recalled how before coming out as a gay man in the ’90s, certain aspects of family tradition made him feel like he had to hide who he is.
The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.-- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted ...