Excerpt from The Forty-Ninth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: For the Year 1898-1899 The Institution has productive funds amounting to over The endowment funds, raised at various times, were increased, in 1881, to an even William Bucknell contributed to the general fund and for scholarships and prizes about One hundred thousand dollars additional endowment was raised in 1892. There is in progress at present (1900) a movement to raise for endowment and improvements. 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.