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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]UVa has a lot of secret societies and selective student organizatio[/b]ns.  [/quote]

[b]And they are mostly philanthropic [/b]and are a secret for that reason.  Read upthread.  There are several wikipedia articles on this.[/quote]

The Seven Society at UVA has a member who recently gave $40M.

According to wikipedia, here are some of its other gifts to UVA and the community.  These philanthropic societies are UVA are unique and much treasured because of the good they do:

Philanthropic gifts

A sundial donated as a gift by the Seven Society
The group contributes financially to the university, announcing donations with letters signed only with seven astronomical symbols in the order: Earth, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, and Venus. The Society gives large monetary donations and scholarships to the university each year in quantities that include the number 7, e.g. $777 or $1,777. Significant past gifts to the university include the Seven Society Carillon in the UVA Chapel, donated in memory of deceased members of the society, and given with the request that there should be a toll of seven times seven bells on the passing of a member;[5] a memorial to past Seven Society members who gave their lives in World War I;[6] $17,777.77 for a loan fund in honor of university president John Lloyd Newcomb; the ceremonial mace carried in academic processions;[7] $10,777.77 in support of the re-establishment of Homecomings;[8] a plaque on the Rotunda honoring University students who died in the Korean War;[9] $7,077.77 to endow the Ernest Mead Fund for the Music Library;[10] $47,777.77 for the making of a film on the honor system;[11] and $1 million in support of the university's South Lawn Project.[12] Most recently, the society gave a $777,777.77 grant to fund the Mead Endowment, founded in honor of Ernest Mead, which awards grants to professors to teach their "dream classes."[13]

In addition to granting spontaneous gifts, the Seven Society sponsors an annual $7,000 graduate fellowship award for superb teaching.[14][/quote]

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