Excerpt from The Brown Alumni Monthly, 1909-1910, Vol. 10 As only about of the two million endowment fund could be credited to the common fund since so many gifts were for special purposes, the income available for running ex penses was much less than generally supposed. In order to get a clear idea of the amounts given to Brown during the last ten years without going into particulars, the following estimate may be of assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.