Word: pecunia
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...found my alibi for being here in a certain senior thesis on French history that remains entirely to be written. Generously funded by Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, I was endowed not only with the necessary pecunia to keep me in a tiny flat off the Boulevard Diderot, but also with something more immaterial, yet of crucial value: a letter beginning with “To Whom it May Concern.” On fancy Veritas-watermarked paper, this short message was my admittance ticket...
Harvard garnered another Latin epigram this Saturday: Harvars longa, fortuna breva, pecunia fugienta...
There comes a time in every exam period when the need for relaxation is paramount. Perhaps this explains why the old Roman art of pecunia-iacienda came to the Lowell House courtyard last week...
...nostra aetate quoque nec pecunia, nec mole rerum immensa, nec machinatione callida alte volantium aut vim fulminis ipsam tractantium, neque audacia polum glacialem explorantium poterimus pravos et improbos invare acignaros instituere; sed necesse est nos mentes hominum illuminatione animorum divina incendere et excitare...
...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...
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