Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scholarships which Harvard has were given by men and women who believed that money, expended in making advanced education possible to young men, was well expended. The money given is ordinarily not reserved for specified individuals; it is given freely to persons with whom the donors have no previous connection. In a word, scholarships are a result of an interest in the general welfare. They are investments of the community,-the sacrifice of one generation for the sake of a future generation...
pect Union in Union Hall, Cambridgeport, at eight o'clock tonight. It is to this concert that the union looks for the bulk of the money needed to defray the deflcit which arises each year in its finances, and in most years it has received over two hundred dollars from the concert. The admission is but twenty-five cents. Tickets may be secured at Thurston's or at the hall this evening...
...patriotism. Our government at Washington is chiefly made up of men who have no thought for the best interests of the country and who do not concern themselves with any duties of government further than they find these useful in advancing themselves and their friends politically, or in getting money. Even now there is encamped in one of the beautiful valleys of Maryland an army of eight thousand vagabonds who are marching to Washington with no further purpose than to force Congress to pass laws for their own welfare, not for the good of the country. And these vagabonds...
...Prospect Union is in need of larger quarters; the number of men who wish to enter classes there is greater than can in any way be accommodated. To meet this need, the most expedient move has seemed to be the purchase of the old City Hall of Cambridge. The money for this purpose is to be raised, partly by mortgage and partly by bonds issued by the Prospect Union and secured by the real estate purchased. We speak of the matter because, in the first place, we believe that the Prospect Union does an excellent work and that every plan...
...matters, to make the class nines play on diamonds that pervert ordinary baseball conditions, and make it doubly hard to acquire confidence and skill. The lease which the University has on Norton's expires this year, and will not be renewed; it may, in consequence, be objected that any money spent on the field would do no good next year. But next year or no next year, there is this year, and a large sum of money could be spent this year on baseball without a cent's being thrown away. Good diamonds, and not simply apologies for diamonds...