Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Charles River on the land now owned by the University, in which all first year men, except those living at home, will be required to live. At least one of these dormitories will be built next year, and the construction of the others will follow as soon as sufficient money is provided...
...eminence among the college-going classes that it once did, largely because the college-going class has so enlarged itself in the last twenty-five years. Nowadays great numbers of boys work their way through college, and many of them do not know of the many chances of earning money at Harvard. For the boys themselves it is highly desirable that all colleges shall put their respective advantages before the schools, so that any given boy can have full information before he decides whether a small college, a local college, or a large university is best suited to his particular...
...recent litigation it remains unsettled and may be forever without solution. Courts have attempted to base rate schedules on the value of the corporation's property, and according to the services rendered. On the basis of valuation and service many things have to be considered. A growing concern spends money in getting under way, establishing communications, obtaining a franchise, and in adding new appliances. It finally renders the public service. The value of property and the value of service are difficult to determine. They are both incommensurable...
Last spring we took occasion to remark that a very small percentage of the $1200 annual income from the tennis courts was spent on their improvement. Considering their notoriously poor condition, we thought it strange that so much money should be allowed to flow into channels in no way connected with tennis. It seemed to us only fair that the men who contributed this $1200 should have the best possible equipment under the circumstances. We ventured to point out that this was far from the case, that a certain sum of money, contributed by the large number...
...remains of what may once have been a plot centre about a law student in Paris who has not yet met the girl; the girl herself; a Mama with suffragette leanings, yet clothed in most ladylike attire; a Papa who made money in Omaha, Neb., transferred it to his wife. and now will drink cocktails on the sly in spite of her; an English lord wanted by Mama for Marjorie; a mock-English lord to do the confusion-of-identity stunt;--all these and more are tangled up in Cook's Office in Paris with the Opera standing bravely...