Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prospect of a new $100,000 gymnasium is creating a great deal of talk among the students of Columbia College. It has been the custom in past years for the graduating class to erect a memorial window, but '86 has decided to give its money for a fund to be used in aid of a new gymnasium. Speculation is rife whether or not the scheme will be successful. In order to raise the required amount, the alumni will have to be depended upon for the greater bulk of the money and with them rests in a great measure the successful...
...hard to realize the demoralizing effect of such a debt hanging over each new captain, and hampering his every action. Considerably over one third of the money raised by subscriptions goes to pay up the debt transmitted from the previous year, and leaves far too little for the current expenses. For the past two years the debt has not increased, and if the college will make an effort and pay off the existing debt this year, the club will be enabled in future to carry on their affairs on a cash basis, which will lessen the actual expenses, prevent tradesmen...
...course the other players will take the precedence of the new. We wish Capt. Hood every success, and hope that the team this year will accomplish as much as it did last year, and we also breath a wish that the college will support with muscle and money a team which has won so much honor...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - While so much has been done to help poor young men to get an education at Harvard, it is singular that some provision has not been made to provide them with text books. The money spent for books is quite a large item in the college expenses of a poor young man, but there are rich students, on the other hand, who throw away many of their old books, or have them in their rooms when they graduate. If an appeal were made, and a person appointed to take charge of the matter, hundreds of discarded books...
...numerous charitable associations. He has stood between many worthy persons in various conditions of life and utter want and despair, and has tided over hard passages in life not a few who feel indebted to him for ultimate success and prosperity. Nor has he been generous in money alone, but in personal service, in the hospitality of his house, and in gifts chosen with equal delicacy for the feelings and regard for the needs of the recipient. Indeed, the considerate courtesy which is an essential part of the true kindness marked his whole social intercourse, regardless...