Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...credit of being vastly richer than you are. And keep your bills paid up. It is always easier to settle a small account than a large one, and if you pay your bills promptly you will not be so apt to have too much pocket-money, - which tempts a man to spend money in a way which can never be of any imaginable...
...moneyed man in the commercial world frequently raises large sums on his credit; but in college matters are different. A man who borrows is always regarded with suspicion; and a man who for any reason fails to pay his debts is a lost man from that time forth. So don't borrow. And if anybody tries to borrow from you, make some excuse or other. A man who lends is generally supposed to do so out of sympathy for the impecuniosity which he has himself experienced...
...insisted on paying the bill for the entire company. The result was that the decent half of the world took it into its head that he was a toady, and cut him altogether; while the other half sponged on him, as a matter of course; and the poor little man went through college spending half as much again as anybody else, and getting nothing in return for it but the contempt of everybody that saw him. So don't treat, and don't be treated. It don't pay to pay, for you will be called a toady...
...words about human nature that I promised you. It is a singular fact that every man, whatever he may think of himself in other ways, feels sure in his heart of hearts that he is level-headed,- to use an expressive bit of slang. If he makes any mistakes, it is always because he did not follow the dictates of his judgment. And every man considers his views of money matters to be as sound as sound can be. People who agree with him he considers as sound as himself. People who do not agree with him he calls fools...
...fortune to have escaped meeting him. The book, as a whole, may possibly be better than the extracts indicate, and it will certainly be worth reading from curiosity. As for the rest, we are strongly inclined to think that the niche in the temple of Fame reserved for the man who treats this subject in a masterly style is still unoccupied...