Word: rich
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...property, and that nobody is legally bound to provide for him, may compete for a scholarship; C. D., on the contrary, who has in the savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot ask for this privilege. And yet A. B., it may be, has a rich uncle, who, as is tacitly understood, will see that he wants nothing, and will give him a salaried place in his counting-room the moment he graduates; while C. D. must incur the cost of studying a profession, and will have a mother and sisters dependent upon him for support...
...loaf on rich divans, and loll At ease...
Motley's college career was not a model one. His negligence and lack of ambition did not promise the wonderful industry of his mature years. But his manly independence in devoting part of his time to literature, instead of struggling to excel his classmates, had a rich result in the literary excellence of his after work...
...aggregate of pound 60,000 annually - are bestowed for knowledge alone, and are sought as earnestly by the sons of the wealthy as by the poor. They average about pound 65 a year. This is one example of the determination at Oxford to draw no line between rich and poor. It has its swells and its snobs, but whatever they may import in that way is absolutely unrecognized by university and college law and administration...
SOPHOMORE fourth division Latin: "Telephum dives et lasciva puella occupavit," - "The rich and lascivious young maiden grasped the telephone." Mr. J. is reseated. - Courant...