Word: earned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...TUCKER, 22 Bigelow St., Cambridge.A CHANCE to earn some money. Easy work-good pay. Apply at 9 Thayer this morning between 8.30 and 9, or this afternoon between...
...those met by a record-breaking athlete. Not every athlete wins a cup in his first contest. Neither does every promising fellow win a scholarship. Neither the very rich man nor the very poor is in the contest at all. The poor man cannot train for a scholarship and earn his living at the same time. Yet this same poor fellow, Mr. Bolles recognized, often brought to the University that pluck, all round activity, and tenacity of faith that we needed together with our spirit of acquisition and sense of culture. The meagre addition of a scholarship to the already...
...only serious argument that is ever brought forward in favor of the seminar system is that it provides an easy method for men to earn money for their college expenses. This is doubtless true, and whatever measures are adopted to overthrow the system will probably not be such as to make it absolutely impossible to give seminars and to earn money in this way. No rule can be passed forbidding them, for rules would not affect outside tutors and there would be an obvious injustice to a college man who happened to want to give seminars. The Faculty can take...
...writer of memoirs, magazine articles and an essayist, De Quincey was one of the princes of English literature. He was of an intellectual turn of mind and resolved to see the world with his own and not with other's eyes. To earn his daily bread, he was compelled to write what would bring him immediate returns. Thus his literary activity was determined by his financial condition and his first writings were fugitive magazine articles which won for him the greater part of his fame...
...religious work in the city and receive for it three dollars a week and upwards. They also receive a furnished room free of charge in Divinity Dormitory accommodating 140 students, and built by Mr. Rockefeller. It is also stated in the catalogue that the theological students can earn in addition to this about $100 a year...