Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...giants-scholars, statesmen, soldiers and patriots; but that is only a tradition now. Harvard is simply a training school for the sons of the rich, a place where wealth is honored and glorified, where the rich man's son is taught his own importance and the dignity of his money bags. Harvard can best be typified as the goddess Minerva trotting around the town with a collection box in her hand; she has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North...
...Harvard undergraduates who have for years supported the Prospect Union; who, under the watchword of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," have furnished an eager corps of instructors to hundreds of the artisan class who longed for the education they could in no other way afford the time or money to obtain...
...church where Washington, Andrew Jackson and many other famous men were received; an inscription explaining the significance of the Liberty Tree; and a tablet marking the spot where the first Harvard man fell in the Revolution. These memorials will be rather elaborate and will require a considerable sum of money for their erection...
...tablets and inscriptions are very expensive and require a large amount of money. It is hoped by the members of the society, that all students will be willing to contribute something to the work of the society. Any student having in his possession anything of historic value in connection with a distinguished graduate, and who would be willing to give the same as a transmittendum, is requested to notify the curator of the society, G. L. Paine, 20 Little's block...
What the society needs at present more than anything else is money, and without money it can do nothing. It, therefore, begs all those who are interested in perpetuating the association and interests of Harvard, and to honor the names of the famous men who have dwelt in their midst, to contribute towards the work of the society. Subscriptions may be sent to Charles Dickinson, 1 Hastings Hall...