Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON publishes below a most interesting and instructive address, delivered recently by Rudyard Kipling before the students of McGill University. In an age when values are reckoned so absolutely in dollars and cents, the testimony of a man who has faced life from every possible side, and has found money a secondary aim, should demand more than passing notice...
...present managers are the first ones to admit that as a competition collecting subscriptions is a farce. No one can judge of a man's qualifications to manage a team by his ability to collect money from the students; and the managers are therefore taking into account the candidates' general fitness to do the necessary work. The result is unsatisfactory to everyone-to the managers, who are placed in an unpleasant position; and to the candidates, who frequently feel that they have been unjustly dealt with...
Speaking on "The Responsibilities of School Committees," Mr. Storrow said that the School Committee should fight for the interests of the school-children rather than for those of the individual. For the benefit of the children, and for the purpose of saving the city's money, the School Committee has established promotional tests, which new teachers must pass before an advancement...
...Relation of the municipality to the street railway companies: (a) terms of existing franchise grants; (b) money payments from year to year, in the nature of taxes and in the nature of rental for streets; (c) services other than money payments required of the companies, such as street paving, street cleaning, etc.; (d) the finances of the street railway company; (e) the process of consolidation of street railway companies, if such has taken place; (f) the present condition of the street railway service; (g) suggestions for the improvement of the service...
...missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On this occasion he testified regarding the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Belgian government to wring money from the natives...