Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...With a money lord it had found its place...
...money had gone, - for a very long time...
...Association is made up at present of fourteen colleges, differing greatly in size and in the extent of their resources; and while three or four are abundantly supplied with men and money for sending crews, the majority have the greatest difficulty in meeting their crews' expenses. In fact, the latter have joined the Association, and remain in it, for the reason that membership is now accepted as a sort of certificate of character, and is deemed the distinguishing mark between a college and a high school. The membership of the Association is not, I believe, limited by its constitution...
...objections the annoyances necessarily attendant on a convention, the members of which devote their time to quibbles about parliamentary law, which almost loses sight of the advantages of the race in the clouds of many rows and disputes, and in connection with which there is a necessary outlay of money and time that might as well, and had better be saved, certainly no one can question the claim that Harvard has fair grounds for withdrawing from the Association. But when it is added that Harvard and Yale, although having greater numbers of students than the other colleges, and drawing...
...well carved; we do not have anything warm at lunch; the tablecloths and napkins are coarse or small, and I do not dare to notice how seldom they are washed; in short, as I have said, while all credit is due to the managers for making our money go as far as it does, they have not enough money to supply us with anything better than a third-rate hotel table...