Meanings of endow colleges in English

I wonder that the rich who endow colleges do not ever think of creating play-grounds.

They're mostly Dodos-thekind that endow colleges.

They have been granted to endow colleges and schools, to build railroads, to reward the soldiers and support their widows and orphans.

People may preside at banquets, I learned, and address political meetings, and head subscription papers, and found public baths, and build and endow colleges.

You know the Wreams have made a life business of endowing colleges.

Many beneficent enterprises were planned, principally in the line of endowing colleges, and paying church-debts.

But what wealthy people ever dream nowadays of building and endowing colleges on purely literary lines?

They have endowed colleges, built cathedrals, opened the wilderness to railroads, filled the American desert with roses, constructed telephone, telegraph, and steamship lines.