Word: rich
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ostensible reason for this monthly weighing is that the Faculty desire to ascertain the effect of the meals eaten by the students upon their health. If the students grow fat it will be assumed that their diet is too rich, and if they grow thin it will be regarded as evidence that they are not sufficiently fed. Whether the real end in view is to ascertain upon how little food a student can thrive, and to confine him to precisely that quantity, is not known, but there is certainly room for suspecting that this is Dr. Hamlin's design...
Germany presents several unique features. First there is the gymnasium through which the student must reach the university unless he is rich enough to employ some influential tutor. The gymnasium is a classical school, divided into six forms. Every year examinations are held by government officials. In the gymnasium the discipline is rigid, in the university very free, the chief end of the student being to prepare for examinations. All through the system is one of examinations. Political offices are given to university graduates in proportion to their success in examinations...
...younger classes to decide to give a window and therefore secured the first choice of position. The architects of the hall have insisted that the window shall be very light, - lighter than any now in the hall, - but the artist has nevertheless been able to use some rich coloring. He says of it himself, "For a light window it is the richest I have ever seen." Mr. LaFarge has not been allowed to use any of the curious white glass which appears in the window of the class of '60. The class of '54 may possibly place a window...
...society houses or lodges are tasteful and convenient in design, rich in interior furnishings, forming essentially a home for the society members. Here the leisure hours of every day are passed; the piano and organ stand invitingly open; the convenient sleepy-hollow lures one to recline at ease while he reads a novel from the well-filled book-case close at hand. Here the evenings are whiled away in pleasant chat on college matters or in a beguiling game of whist; and here at various times the students, a choice number, with a few invited guests, devote the evening...
...Cambridge is now. There is no country in the world that gives a larger share of its wealth to the advancement of letters than the United States; and in no part of our own land is there a greater munificence than in Massachusetts. Its citizens ennoble the acquisition of riches by devoting their affluence to the service of popular beneficence. Generosity has become a public sentiment. Indeed, it is already proverbial that no rich New Englander would dare to imperil his future happiness by failing to make a bequest to Harvard. This wise benevolence, so nobly characteristic of the public...