Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...initial presentation at the same house last season with marked success. The comedy deals with several interesting social types, and has for its hero a spendthrift Bostonian who rescues a young lady from drowning, and then falls desperately in love with her. The girl's mother repulses the penniless suitor, his creditors pursue him, and he is kept in a peck of trouble, but wins the girl of his choice of course...
...Club sustains two funds, a charity fund and a scholarship fund. The aim of the former is to rescue worthy Harvard graduates from financial emergency. For this fund, as the President happily remarked, there is little use, since but few Harvard graduates are at the same time worthy and penniless...