Word: money
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine took in more gate money in their game with Harvard on May 20 than in any other game of the season...
...will get the 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...
...about the best way to make both ends meet, don't complain aloud. A man who is known to be in want of cash is very apt to find himself in want of friends too; but a person who does not talk of any lack of money is not generally suspected of anything worse than a slight tendency to avarice, which, on the whole, is a desirable characteristic. In money matters your policy ought to be this: to seem to have twice as much as you spend; and to spend about half as much as you seem to. You ought...
...remember one case which will serve as an example and a warning. There was a little fellow by the name of Biggs in my class, who had a good deal of money, and was always talking about it. Little Biggs's father had made a fortune, in petroleum, I believe, and little B. himself was as generous as he was small. He never could see you without asking you to dine with him, or to go to the theatre with him, and sup with him after it; and he always insisted on paying the bill for the entire company...
Have we not pride enough, have we not energy enough, to put an end to such reproaches? Let us raise money, let all row who can, and let us revive the old-time spirit, when a seat in a class boat was an honor not easily acquired, and a seat in the "University" was guarded with such care and faithfulness that victory was made absolutely certain...