The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A Donor's Divine Intervention

Financier takes steps to keep fund on spiritual course

By Michael Anft

While attending Yale University during the Depression, John M. Templeton was forced to scrap for his Ivy League education. The 22 bales of cotton his father had set aside for him at their rural Tennessee home -- rewards for the semiannual, straight A-dominated report cards his son received -- wouldn't bring enough...

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