Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...least necessity exists for Plattsburg graduates to forfeit 10 per cent. of the money the government now owes them. A shower of circulars from claim agents in Washington gives the contrary impression. The facts are these: Congress has appropriated sufficient money to reimburse every man who attended Plattsburg this summer for all his expenses at camp, and for his transportation there and back. The Military Training Camps Association is now engaged in obtaining this money from the War Department, and will see that each man receives his due without paying a cent in commission. The claim agents in Washington...
...applies for the Murphy Scholarships at Harvard--the proceeds of the interesting fund bequeathed by the late William S. Murphy of this city, which are sufficient to keep at Harvard constantly three young men of the name of Murphy. The money therefore accumulates; but it will not be lost, for sooner or later the Murphys will come forward. Their present apparent reluctance is probably due in about equal proportions to diffidence and to the limited amount of publicity which Mr. William S. Murphy's generous bequest has received. The offer was a useful as well as a picturesque...
...budget for Yale football coaching for one year alone is considerable, and this money is expended in the employment of a small number of men for the period of only a few weeks out of the year. The expenses for the coaching of the crew are proportionately large, although at present a considerable sum is contributed by graduates to that end. We are given to understand that large sums of money are contributed for similar purposes by graduates of other universities...
Scramble for Money...
...intensity of this rivalry, if unchecked, may so increase as to make intercollegiate athletics an unprofitable scramble for the raising of large sums of money for the payment of the disproportionate salaries demanded by expert coaches...