Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of the famed American novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald raked in $51 million in its opening weekend.

The film and book depict the short period of American excess after World War I but before The Great Depression. Although Fitzgerald ultimately puts a negative spin on this gilded age, one must admit that it would be fun to live like the book's protagonist Jay Gatsby.

Gatsby made his fortune by bootlegging alcohol during the prohibition era, but just how large a fortune did he make? Nickolay Lamm, a researcher and artist, looked into the matter and created an infographic to display his findings. Lamm claims that to live like Gatsby did between 1920 and 1922 would be cost about $34 million in 2013 dollars.

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After returning home from war, Gatsby purchases a 12-room mansion in West Egg, Long Island (West Egg is thought to be a thinly veiled stand in for Great Neck, LI). Lamm estimates that

College costs have been rising nearly 5% a year for the past 10 years—more than double the rate of inflation. The annual cost for a four-year public college or university is now almost $9,000 a year for in-state residents and $22,000 for out-of-state residents, according to the College Board. Private colleges charge two or three times as much.

All these schools face rising costs for health insurance, technology, faculty and infrastructure but public institutions also suffer from a decline in state and local government financing.

Still, that doesn’t seem to have hurt the paychecks of the presidents of public universities. Their median pay packages jumped 5% to $441,392 for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, and a growing number of those presidents took in more than $1 million, according to an analysis by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The millionaires club include:

• Former Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier, who was fired as a result of a sex abuse scandal. His total