Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Both are of great importance. The first is to get the support of every Harvard graduate, and as many people as possible who are not graduates of Harvard but are interested in her welfare and the work she is doing for this country. The second is to get the money necessary to enable her to do that work properly. It is unnecessary to try to make any comparison of the relative importance of these objects...
...must, and we believe will, get the money--not all we could use to advantage, but enough to relieve Harvard's most pressing needs. The support of every Harvard man and of men interested in Harvard is harder to get because it is an intangible thing. It is true that there is no necessary connection between a subscription to the Fund or a failure to subscribe and the sort of support that is really what is wanted. But there is a real inspiration in unanimous action, and while it is perfectly obvious that no member of the Faculty...
...economics at Harvard College; since the time he began, the introductory course has grown to a membership of several hundred, and a whole department has been built up. The science of economics is still very young. One of its points about which controversy has raged--the quantity theory of money--Professor Roorbach is peculiarly fitted to speak on, because of his research work on this subject in Argentina...
From Washington come reports that Congress is considering the appropriation of several billions of dollars for the giving of further bonuses. At first glance most of us will approve. We have acquired the habit of receiving money unexpectedly and we like...
...that of a Yankee doughboy. The Dominion is making a some what tardy retribution for what she probably now considers parsimonious treatment during the war. War time generosity has its advantages; peace time must bring a curtailment of all expenditures. We cannot fool ourselves into believing that the money does not come from our pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means increased taxation. Much of the present unrest is due to the mistaken attitude of large groups towards the government. War time salaries, lavish expenditures for material, and railroad concessions have caused these people to look upon Congress...