Word: rich
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent meeting of the Economics Society the following officers were elected to serve for the remainder of the year: president, Francis Harwood Evans '15, of Chicago, Ill.; vice-president, Stephen Atkins Hatch Rich '15, of Bedford; secretary-treasurer, Edgar Lawrence Keyes '15, of Providence, R. I.; members of the executive council, Ernest Roscoe Caverly '15, of Dorchester; and Mason Simons Ehrenfried '16, of Boston. Paul Starr '16, of Chicago, Ill., was appointed librarian. Curtis Torrey Vaughan '15, of San Antonio, Tex., remains as chairman of the entertainment committee; while Kent Bromley '16, of New York and Walter Flint Noyes...
Competition between the Schools of Applied Science of Technology and Harvard has never been intentionally cutthroat, but its effect, nevertheless, has been to lower the efficiency of each institution in the field of science. That rich phrase, reduplication of effort, has always pointed an accusing finger at the obvious waste of rival educational institutions serving the same community. But a sort of desire for solitary completeness has been put aside and co-operation, which sixteen and eleven years ago, was suggested and failed to carry, has finally begun. The details of the agreement which was accepted yesterday are bewildering...
...CRIMSON does not know whether the statement is the result of poor mathematics or a malicious intent. Whatever its cause may be, this error will be circulated broadcast by the newspapers, and Harvard will once more be branded as "a rich man's college which bars poor students by compelling them to pay exorbitant prices for rooms." It is safe to say that Harvard's undeserved reputation for undergraduate wealth and indifference is largely due to just such canards...
...Perhaps from the very fact of its comparative antiquity and a certain dignity and aristocracy that naturally comes there from, and from Harvard's recognized primacy among educational institutions has come the rather general belief that Harvard is exclusive expensive attainable only to rich men and indulgent of vices common to the gilded youth. In truth, however Harvard with its non-sectarianism. Its enormous cosmopolitan attendance its prohibition of secret societies with their caste and clannishness, its diversified course of study in the college proper and the many special schools that make-up the University is the most democratic...
...Freshmen, and indeed all students, who contemplate entering any get rich-quick schemes would first consult with the Deans of the College, who are always anxious to help them, there would be fewer dollars lost and College careers reined by imprudent mock-business ventures...