Word: richer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea is good in spite of the danger. The richer the man the more he should pay in proportion to his wealth. One percent of of $10,000 is a much larger amount for a human being to pay in taxes than one percent...
...electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking at it all is possible. But there is yet another and a higher possibility. There may be in all this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer and more gracious meaning. It may signify, we believe that it does signify, the partial gradually reconciling itself to the universal; the temporary little by little fulfilling itself with the eternal. There was a discipline of the Christian Church larger than the discipline of the Puritans, in which the discipline...
...from one to two dollars and a half, an hour - Harvard certainly affords the best of opportunities to a student who is well off in brain, but poor in the riches of this world. And fully three-quarters of its sixteen hundred students are made up of men no richer than the average student at our own university...
...must be enlarged, two sets of dining hours must be introduced, or a new dining association must be formed. The last plan is most feasible. If a small dining association could be formed and provided with the proper outfit, and managed so as to meet the demands of the richer students, - a standard of board being provided that would cost $6.00 or $7.00, - Memorial would be relieved of the coming overflow. When Memorial is full there is every danger of high prices in Cambridge boarding houses. When they become too exorbitant, and it will take many years to effect this...
...under unavoidable injustice. If our treasury were receiving anything beside unpaid bills, we might feel like donating a few hundred dollars to the college for use in purchasing microscopes, but under the present conditions, we can only extend our sympathy to the unfortunates, and plead their cause among our richer, but not more generously disposed, neighbors...