The NY Times reported that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be receiving the largest ever donation to a university and it is an anonymous donation. Read the article [url=<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/13/nyregion/for-rensselaer-polytechnic-a-record-setting-gift-with-no-strings-attached.html?mcubz=0%5Dhere%5B/url”>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/13/nyregion/for-rensselaer-polytechnic-a-record-setting-gift-with-no-strings-attached.html?mcubz=0]here[/url].
The article is from 2001.
This already happened quite some time ago.