The center, a nonprofit organization with a substantial endowment, was among the original group of producers of "Tantalus."
The money has been used to finance seminary education, open a home for retired clergy members, finance Catholic schools and build a substantial endowment.
But, he notes, such a gift has to be accompanied by a substantial endowment of operating capital.
These buildings can't in any case be sold off as they are held in trust and maintained by substantial endowments.
It, and by now its substantial related endowments, fell to a court favourite, Richard Taverner.
Amos Rhodes died in 1928, leaving a substantial endowment.
Revesby had been given a fairly substantial endowment and hence had a comfortable income.
The financial situation was complicated by the fact that Consumers Union's substantial endowment suffered with the rest of the market.
Central was also the only school in the city that enjoyed a "substantial private endowment."
Other schools, which usually have less substantial endowments, have their own ways to attract doctoral students.