Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...denouement," on the famous street, makes one wish that the suspense had lasted longer. More ambitious is Mr. Murdock's "A Change of Heart," which tells how a smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort of philanthropy, but to golf! Possibly the characters in the story would be more life-like if the author had let them speak more for themselves; the setting and atmosphere are well handled. The unexpected "denouement" confronts one again in Mr. Burke...
However improbable it may seem, debating costs money. We have not any fund on which to draw; nor do we harass the students begging for names on a subscription list. Obviously the only method left, by which we can secure money, is to sell tickets to the Harvard-Yale debate. This ticket sale is the only means we have to raise funds to send a team to Princeton and to pay the expenses incident to the Harvard-Yale debate at Cambridge...
...Smith, lecturing in the Union last night, made several vivid contrasts between life at the present day, and that in the South before the war. Urging the avoidance of too much work, Mr. Smith pointed out the advantages of a less hurried life, and the spending of time and money in pursuits that make life worth living. He said that the curse of our generation is the craze for money...
Work on the new Dudley Memorial Gate has been begun within the last few days. The structure is the gift of the late Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes who bequeathed to her nephew, Mr. I. N. Phelps Stokes, the architect, a sum of money to be expended in erecting at Harvard a memorial to her ancestor, Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
...third production of the 47 Workshop will be given in the Agassiz House at Radcliffe this evening and tomorrow at 8 o'clock when two one-act pieces, "Nothing but Money," and "Court Favor" will be presented. "Nothing but Money" was written by Miss Margaret Champney, a special student at Radcliffe, of Lynnfield Centre, and is one of the two plays between which the MacDowell Fellowship was divided this year. It is a story of quaint New England life...