Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...especially so in this great city, where every year completion becomes keener and more pitiless. Only constant effort will enable a man to continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often the case that nothing but a bank account distinguishes the capitalist from the socialist. Justus Schwab says, "Shoot the rich man;" and the rich man says, "The public be blanked!" Ignorance is the only common bond between them, and that fosters their...
...costly. If they refuse to pay the taxes for all sorts of fooling they are shoved aside as mean fellows, and this ostracism very few can bear. It costs a student at Yale or Harvard from $1200 to $2000 a year if he is going to be in full rapport with his class. It becomes college trustees to see that these expensive habits, so inimical to all true study, are prohibited, and that professors and students give heed to the important work for which the college was created. I believe all of these errors in our college management arise from...