ARTICLE: U.S. Higher Education’s Great Robber Barons

[Ryan Goble]

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U.S. Higher Education’s Great Robber Barons

As founders of major American universities go, John Harvard — a childless clergyman who died from TB at age 30 — is a relative anomaly. Many of the country’s best colleges, from Yale to Stanford to Duke, are the well-endowed, insouciant offspring of a young nation’s wealthiest men — the great titans of industry whose grit, foresight and willingness to bend, and sometimes break, both the law and those in their employ helped them to accumulate massive fortunes. The munificence of these philanthropists has educated millions, but they were far, far from saints. Read the story here.

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