Edited sentence: Grinnell College has an elegant and distinctive history.Indeed, in only about 150 years, Grinnell has grown from insignificant community of a few idealists to one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the world.Once an obscure stop along the Underground Railway, Grinnell is now amongst the most high-powered intellectual communities in the United States.The college has gone from having an endowment of less than one hundred thousand dollars in the mid-twentieth century to having the highest endowment of any American liberal arts college only half a century later