Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...private possession for many years and the land is still well forested and much in its original state. The present owner wishes to donate to the town a portion of this land, including the spring, as shown on the accompanying topographic map, together with a sufficient sum of money, and he wishes competitive designs for a treatment of the area as a memorial to the founders of the town. It is suggested that the memorial take the form of a sculptural or architectural treatment of the spring with a suitable backing of planting or architecture, all in a setting...
Although the millennium has not been reached, we do not believe that things have changed. The money line of distinction is no longer of great importance. Good fellowship is placed higher than a substantial check-book and an expensive motor car. Wealth still makes the path to popularity easier in certain circles, yet most of us at Harvard as well as most of us in America try to estimate men by their character rather than by their pocketbooks. We believe that "a man's a man for a' that...
...next Thursday evening, December 14, at 8 o'clock. E. L. Casey '19, president of the class, will speak to the Sophomores, and L. K. Garrison '19, the class treasurer, will make a report on the activities of the finance committee, which has already collected a considerable sum of money...
...remembrances of parish houses and Ladies Aid Societies. But the festivals in the Arabian nights and the great Eastern bazaars will more nearly approach the exhibition in Mechanics Building tonight. Articles of every description will be on sale--and there will always be a fair exchange for your money. The elaborate exhibition of war relics and the reproduction of a British trench, arranged by Captain Thwaites, to say nothing of the trench-climbing "tank," cannot fail to interest. There will also be chances to contribute to individual charities in which you may be personally interested...
...Rhodes plan for bringing the nations together was embodied in the establishment of the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford. A large sum of money was set aside to pay for the education of non-British students at the favored university of the testator. The students were to be chosen with care from among the most promising youth of foreign countries. Americans, Germans and many others took advantage of the opportunities thus offered and the Rhodes scholars became an interesting feature of Oxford life...