Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain, but only the good begining of something which they intend to make better. Harvard is still growing. It has a future as well as a past, and the most remarkable things about its life to-day is the pluck, the true grit, with which its sons face the music of the present...
About six millions dollars of endowment are now happily invested. Several millions' worth of grand buildings, with all that man could ask for in the way of libraries, apparatus, etc., are thronged with students. But there is something better yet at Harvard. It takes more than money to make a college-that is, a college of the future. Wisdom cannot be bought. Experience costs time and tears. Sectarian colleges, and probably all others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come...
...studied here with admirable facilities; so can all the languages and all the sciences, and the best of all is that good as are the helps and high as are the standards, nobody has such a conceited estimate of them as not earnestly to strive to make them better. Knowledge is here thoroughly humble over its own ignorance; it knows enough to know its own limitations. The college life is so vigorous as to spend nearly a million dollars a year, and still feel wretchedly pinched in every department by poverty. And the mental life is so vigorous that scholars...
...Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people away, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.- PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...
...Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people away, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.- PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...