Word: rich
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: affirmative, Shattuck, '87, Frye, Sp., Dean, '88, Buck, '87; negative, Porter, '89, Bronson, Sp., J. W. Richardson, '86, Thayer, '89, Hammerslough, '88, McAfee, Sp., Platt, '88, Poppleton, '87, Currier, '87, Duane, '88, Chenoweth, '88, Rich, '87, Williams, '88, Page, '85. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole resulted, affirmative, 3; negative...
...Yale College library is especially rich in books pertaining to American History...
...three Canadians now in college, and compared their number with the number of Californians now here. You might better compare their number with the number of Englishmen at Harvard, or with the number of Americans now at Oxford or Cambridge. In the first place, Canada is not as rich a country as, - say California, and the mere fact that her territory adjoins the United States, is no reason why she should contribute a large number of students to our colleges. Canada is a foreign country as much as Mexico or Russia; her sympathies are divided, not between Canada...
...this must be remedied, and there must be a class of men to remedy them. Every science and every profession would offer analogous opportunities for the development of a man's concentrated energies in a direction where all hopes of gaining money must be thrown aside. Harvard abounds in rich young men whose eyes ought to be opened to the possibilities of entering upon a course of purely theoretical labor, in which they may not only find personal satisfaction, but also gain the gratitude and the esteem of their more unfortunate brother laborers, whose energies are wasted either...
Students are warned to beware of a swarthy vendor of smuggled cigars. He has been reaping a rich harvest by selling at $5.00 a hundred, "real 25 cent cigars," which would be dear at three cents a piece. Look...