Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boat Club needs money. It is in debt and its expenses are increasing year by year. We feel that appeal has been made on the purse of the students until further aid from that source cannot be expected. The alumni of the college should feel that they still are Harvard men in all athletic contests. They share in the regret and glory of Harvard's defeats and victories, and an appeal to them for money should carry with it a sense of obligation...
Besides the extremely successful manner in which he performed the duties of librarian, the college has to thank him for the zeal he displayed in obtaining valuable donations to the library. Through his influence many gifts of money were received, as well as valuable contributions of rare books and coins...
...absurdly futile attempt was made, somewhile ago, to ascertain whether a moderate Liberal candidate could be run at the General Election with any chance of success, but we believe that the result showed that any such attempt would be attended with nothing but a considerable loss of money, and inextinguishable laughter from the winning side...
...response to the earnest appeals of his American scientific friends, Tyndall came to this country. Before deciding to come, however, he received repeated assurances from various sources, that it would be a profitable trip to him from a money point of view. In reply to these supposed allurements, he said that he would come, if he came at all, because his friends thought he would aid the cause of science in America, and not a dollar would he carry out of the country...
...voluntary system is not sufficient. Gladstone says that economic grounds cannot always prevail, but morality and charity must be considered. The English socialist now wishes to have the state take control of hotels, banks and ultimately the land. The increase of the amount of machinery in use, rolled up money for the rich, made the poor poorer, and destroyed the lives of many of the powerless laborers. So the German government took charge of many private corporations...