It met its target, a remarkable accomplishment, but here's the thing. According to the 2014 Times Higher Education world rankings {which are generally held to be the most exacting of their type}, the University of Virginia ranks 130th among the world's universities. Eighteen much more modestly funded British universities rank higher. On the world stage, according to the Times Higher, Virginia is about level with Britain's Lancaster University, which has an endowment fund one-thousandth the size of Virginia's. That is pretty extraordinary. And
( Bill Bryson )
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