Word: money
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Phillipian is pervaded by common-sense. The profits of the paper for the past year have been devoted to putting a stained-glass window into the Great Hall of Phillips Academy. Here is an example for college papers to follow, - when they make money...
...then perhaps you can tell me something about the life at Harvard. Do the fellows drink, smoke, play cards for money, and bet, as at Yale...
...admit it is rather "swell," and gives people the impression that you have come to college only because it is the proper thing, and not to learn anything or prepare yourself for such a vulgar occupation as earning your bread. Still, some men who are gentlemen, and even have money, do not get dropped, and it might, you know, gratify your parents to have you "get through...
Again, don't combine with all that lavishness of expenditure on dress and amusements which you are already acquiring an '82-like stinginess in giving money to the good of your class, or an '80-like indifference to all class organizations...
...both her crew and the 'Varsity; still, that class did not get a very good reputation by such conduct. Then, too, it is very fine to say, "Confound all class matters, what do I care for my class?" like the '80 men, and though, like '80, liberal with your money, to refuse to give yourself to class objects. But crews and theatricals and all organizations in the class must have earnest officers and hearty support from the members, or they will go to ruin. You won't lose anything by a lack of indifference; the best-liked...