Word: consideration
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A richly endowed university is in progress of construction at Worcester, Mass. The plans and intentions of the founder are given in another column. There is a question in the minds of many learned and able men whether the munificent sum donated by its founder, Mr. Clark, could not have...
"I don't think that I could have gone through college and got along with a sum materially smaller than that which I have had ($1000 a year). In view of the small sum on which some men go through college, it may seem ridiculous for me to say this...
...expense prevails at Harvard. They suggest that students are, after all, merely young men temporarily removed from homes, and that they are practicing here, without violent change, the habits which the home has formed. Those who have been accustomed to large expenditure spend freely here; those of quiet and considerate habits do not lightly abandon them. But it may seem that the smallest of the sums named is large for a poor man. It may be believed that even after restraint and wisdom are used, Harvard remains the college of the rich. There is much in our circumstances to make...
It is said that the young women of '89 availed themselves of the privilege of paying the class-tax last year, and that they consider themselves members of the class.- Cornell Sun.
And then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is...