Word: amassing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many that have gone before them, are, no doubt, strongly impressed with a sense of their utility or their singular fitness for life in what they regard as the more civilized portion of the country. There are some who are roused by the ambition of a Marlborough-to amass a great fortune. Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon...
...commerce. The trustees, faculty and students, should, therefore, devote at least four hours of every day to making "exchanges." In this way each one might, with industry, secure to himself 'twenty-four profits and twenty-four uses of capital' daily. At a moderate estimate, every Middlebury student ought to amass a fortune of at least $500,000 in the course of four years, while the professors and trustees, after making money enough to raise their own salaries to, say, $25,000 each, would be able to pay into the college treasury money enough to make Middlebury College far richer than...
...these youth will yet occupy public positions and control the political action of their States. The lessons which they will learn in Cambridge and Boston will never be forgotten. Respect for the dignity of labor, reverence for law, the value of the varied industries and thrifty economics which amass the means that philanthropy so grandly uses are nowhere better exemplified, and the salutary and harmonizing influences which the civil institutions of Massachusetts inspire will be felt to the farthest borders of our land...