Word: riche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pointed to the necessity of closer contact if men of the more privileged classes are to be of real service in solving the tremendous problems to which city conditions give rise, the essential problem of democracy, and all those kindred problems that depend upon an optimistic confidence in the rich resources of the human soul. Emotional as well as intellectual conviction is an essential of power to do good...
...Last," I. P., treating the recent revival in English drama, has a rich subject little treated as yet. I. P. merely flashes a thought of his before the reader and is done. A pity--this, for the bloom is off a fine subject--that...
...Emerson and the rest--these men belong to Harvard tradition not less than to Hollis lore. In the words of John Harvard's closing speech, "We feel ourselves a link in that entail which binds all natures past with all that are to be." That Hollis has a particularly rich history is an accident, perhaps, but the story is one that belongs to Harvard as a whole...
...once likened a college community to a cross-section of the outside world. Such would seem to be the consensus of opinion of the statisticians although they seldom state it thus. In short, Harvard, or Wisconsin, or Yale,--or any University of like size, -- can not be called a "rich man's college," or a poor man's college or even a middle class college without violating the full character of the community. All classes-financially, morally, intellectually,--all sorts of activities, and all kind of interests can be found represented here. To term Harvard "a so and so college...
...That the "rich man's college" myth, the theory that wealthy boys dominate the life of Harvard, is effectively dissipated, since about 60 per cent. of these college leaders, and among them some of the most successful and prominent earned at least part of their expenses, making an average of $900 per man, while six of them actually earned more than they spent...