Word: earns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...from a somewhat different standpoint. Speaking of the increase of private dormitories and the large number of students living outside of College buildings, the President says, "An experience of 270 years with dormitories has demonstrated that they are not good property for the College, it having proved impossible to earn on them so good an income as the mass of general investments of the University yields. The President and Fellows have not built a dormitory with their own money since 1870-71, and are not likely ever to build another, unless with money given for that express purpose." This...
...which diminished the well-being of laborers. M. d'Avenel shows that women have gained about 75 per cent, over the wages of the Middle Ages, while men have lost about 50 per cent. This is due to the free competition among women. As they have been able to earn more, the marriage burdens on men have been lessened, which has given rise to larger families. Today, one hour's labor procures half the quantity of provisions that it would have procured a century ago, and it is the regrets, in looking towards the imaginary wealth of the past, that...
...play is in two acts, the first laid in and about a summer hotel in Tacoma, Washington, the second in the garden of the Marquis Hari Kari, the Japanese governor of Nagasaki. The plot centres about the endeavors of a young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters...
...knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food to support mere working efficiency. They are, in other words, starving. Wretchedness itself is impersonated by the children in the southern textile mills, who, at the age of five, work 12 hours a day to earn ten cents...
...winter Dr. Grenfell travels for miles over the snow to bring medical assistance to the sick; to raise the standard of living in the settlements which are often degraded by vice and filth; and to give the people who have no means of subsistence the chance to earn an honest living. The stereopticon slides of his hospitals were of particular interest, since they described the relief which is brought to many sufferers each year, and the need which they fill in a land where medical service is practically unknown...