Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Business is sometimes spoken of as an especially lucrative calling, but its money-making aspect is usually over-emphasized. While business, especially during the past generation of rapid exploitation of the country's resources, has offered some enormous money prizes, the average business man's income is moderate. And though good fortune plays its part and seems occasionally to pour wealth into the lap of its favorites, the average business man gains his modest "competence" by a combination of knowledge, persistence, good judgment in estimating values, and courage in making or seizing opportunity. Everyday business is not an adventurous speculation...
Important as "making money" may be to preserve solvency or even in common estimation to measure success, mere accumulation is not the paramount object in life of the broad-minded business man. The work itself, with its responsibilities and power, its service rendered, is in large degree its own reward. The auditor of a great railway system, with a fine and sincere enthusiasm, once told me that instead of drawing a salary for his services he really ought to pay for the privilege enjoyed, of seeing, as he put it, "all the business of the road come across his desk...
...teachers or the material equipment necessary for the very best results. The Department budget, of course, has steadily increased, but not in proportion to the amount of work that has had to be done, so that the first and most important need has always been for more money...
...secured in ordinary thesis work, the Department this year employed an additional assistant in Economics 2, and has more than doubled the amount of help and supervision that the students have received in the preparation of their theses. The results already appear to justify the expenditure of the additional money, and it is hoped that a new and better standard of thesis work is being established in this course. About two years ago the Department of Economics invited the Department of Education to undertake a survey of its work. This study has been carried on as fast as the resources...
...swimming pool for the Union needs only money to become a reality. Some of this has already come from private subscription and more is expected with the permission to use the Gymnasium fund. 1918 and 1919 have not yet done their share. The appointment of a committee signifies that they will be given an opportunity. With the prospect before them of being able to use the pool themselves before they graduate, their response is certain to be generous...