February 23, 2001

How Billion-Dollar Endowments May Change 2 Institutions

By JOHN L. PULLEY

Swarthmore hopes to preserve its elite status; Penn State wants to finance its ambitions

As is its custom, Pennsylvania State University kicked off the current academic year in September with an ice-cream social at its University Park campus and the president's annual State of the

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