Colleges Quote by Ezra Cornell Download Open image “Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.” — Ezra Cornell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colleges Effect Large
If Harvard has a smaller endowment, they are less likely to build a building. And that hurts my construction industry, that hurts my financial… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We're holding colleges accountable. We're introducing gainful employment rules, which mean that you have to show the return on investment that students are getting… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe colleges should not be allowed to benefit from unlimited federal largesse while taking advantage of students. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find extraordinary. Take Princeton, for example - it has more money on a per capita basis than any educational institution in the history of educational institutions. There is no scenario where it can spend all the money its endowment… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“Top colleges turn out extraordinary graduates because they take in extraordinary freshmen. That tells very little about what happened in the intervening four years,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandise by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happiness does… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happiness or misery in this life… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side. — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing. — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing. — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews.… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail themselves of the opportunity to take institute of religion courses or,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent… — John Larson Copy Share Image
By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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