Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opening article is a sharp attack on the practice of working one's way through college; an ordinary "working-student," forced to earn money, is likely, it is said, to sacrifice health, intellectual ideals and social enjoyment; men with uncommon endowments may succeed, the majority must fall. Here undoubtedly is a difficulty; but the writer would have done well to bring out the other side more distinctly-that not a few men work their way without losing the best fruits of college life, and that for some men the necessity of supporting themselves is a wholesome discipline. And what counsel...
Professor Moore closes his report with an earnest demonstration of the museum's need of funds. The valuable objects which are donated to the museum cannot be properly exhibited, and many chances for the cheap acquisition of valuable articles have been lost through lack of money. Additional space is also needed...
...complain. The supplies of the city are purchased by persons who have no knowledge of the kind involved in making the contract, so that the city thus loses immense sums. The worst influence morally is the complicity of the police with the worst vices, for whose protection they take money. By the ingenious device of fradulent letting of contracts, lucrative jobs are given to political retainers at unnecessary cost to the city. Laws requiring competitive bidding are easily circumvented. The purchase and sale of public franchises without regard to the interest of the city, and the neglect of public hygiene...
Having selected a method, the matter of rules for governing is comes up. In my opinion the competition should be in sole charge of the manager of the team in question. The amount of money collected by a candidate should be taken into consideration only as showing the candidate's ability and his desire to work. The actual choice can be made only through the manager's impression of the candidate's ability and general fitness gained by observation of his work and the results obtained. A manager is naturally influenced by the opinion of the captain and the members...
Certainly if a competition is to be held at all, its terms must be strictly adhered to. When the amount of money collected is made a factor, this is frequently impossible, both because of the inequality of conditions under which the candidates work, and because a good collector is frequently a most unacceptable sort of a manager. As a result unfounded rumors of favoritism have been freely circulated, and the outcome has been unfair to managers and competitors, and a downright injury to the College...