Word: earned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequence of the necessary employment of an additional clerk in the office. On the first of November the society had to its credit four hundred dollars. The estimated expenses between that date and the close of the fiscal year are nine hundred dollars. The society must therefore earn five hundred dollars in this period. Every effort will be made by the superintendent and the directors for the accomplishment of this object, and it is hoped every effort will be made by the members. As one means of increasing the revenue of the society, the above resolution was passed...
...ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too much of their time at play. By play I mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which they would have to compete with Cornish miners, Lancashire navies and Irish peasants...
There are in the several colleges about three thousand men. Of these, it is estimated twenty-five hundred are the sons of the aristocracy and country gentlemen who are not fitting themselves to earn a living, but only to guide and adorn society. Most of these men come up to university, not to give much time to academic work, but to receive that air of refinement and that touch of grace which tradition says one only gets at Oxford or Cambridge. Their academic work has been done already at one of the great public schools or under private tutors. Then...
...eleven might not contain the best material in college but it would make the best representative team. Do not defer picking out an eleven to wait for better men, but form one, subiect to change, from the material that offers, and if better men desire positions let them earn them by good work and good play...
...must take these. After that the principal subjects of the seven courses are: 1. Latin, Greek; 2. mathematics, physics; 3. chemistry. biology; 4. physics, chemistry; 5. Latin, mathematics; 6. history, political science; 7. English, French, German. Each of these courses is complete. He who follows either will fairly earn...