Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hundred thousand dollars with which to finance a campaign for recruits for training camps next summer is to be raised by the Military Training Association. The money is to be expended under the supervision of a committee including Mayor Mitchel, President Lowell, and presidents of Yale, Princeton, Cornell and other leading educational institutions, and representatives of the Plattsburg Business Men's Camp Association, and the various camps that have been held for the training of college students...
Many and various are the pursuits by which Columbia students earned last summer money amounting to $55,313. A report of P. C. Holter, chairman of the appointments committee of the institution, indicates that a willingness by students to turn any pleasure to financial account, aided them in increasing their earnings by $17,000 over those of the previous summer. Acting as companions to unfortunate possessors of wealth stands high among the places filled by the hard-working students. But playing pianos in summer hotels, working in drug stores, and even the questionable thrills of chauffering trolley cars were...
...students sent by the Central Government are graduates of Tsing Hua College in Peking. In 1908, the United States of America proposed to return to China $10,785,286,10 out of the $24,440,778.81 Boxers Indemnity. The Chinese Government wisely decided to use this sum of money in sending students to America to receive a higher education. A preparatory school, the Tsing Hua College, was established, in Peking from which already 300 students have been sent to this country. There are yet 50 to come to this country each year from this college for 26 years...
...project has met with the approval of the university and the class of 1918 will immediately proceed to sell stock and raise the money for the new dormitory. The Yale Alumni Weekly says: "The stand of the present sophomores, unwilling to face a third year as campus outcasts and yet ready to put their shoulders to the wheel in the matter of providing adequate freshman dormitory accommodations, cannot but command respectful attention and applause...
...self-supporting student at Harvard, the item of board is the greatest problem that he has to cope with. It is essential that he shall have enough wholesome food to nourish him properly for the mental and physical labor that he must perform, and the difficulty in earning enough money to meet this cost may easily result in the sacrifice of health...