Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soon become very proficient in avoiding them and destroy the grass rapidly. They remind us of the elm tree beetles that have destroyed the Yard elms, only the beetles don't know any better. The University has trouble enough with these ignorant pests without having to waste time and money to repair the damage done by the knowing but careless...
Elementary English composition, Mr. F. W. C. Hersey; Elementary French, Professor James Geddes, Jr.; History of English Literature, Professor E. Charlton Black; Principles of Economics, Professor Henry C. Metcalf; Money, Banking and Crisis, Professor Edmund E. Day; Statistics, Professor Roxana H. Vivian; Governments and Politics of Today, Professor Frederic...
...tide has steadily set toward what may best be termed the democratizing--though I very much dislike the phrase! --of the higher education. Democratizing means always materializing and commercializing. It means the rush for business,--for mere money-making...
...Harvard men will tell you they are going into political life or the public service? Very few. Hardly a man!" Mr. Adams repeated. "They'll tell you they're going into business, which means into Wall Street, a broker's office, or anywhere and everywhere that they can make money; but politics and a public career are looked at askance. And with reason! The conditions are altogether different...
...money value of his collection can only be estimated. Authorities say that it would bring at public auction many hundreds of thousands of dollars. In other ways its value is inestimable. It far surpasses in every way other gifts to the Library since 1638 when John Harvard founded it with the modest bequest of 370 books...