Word: richer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amass a fortune of at least $500,000 in the course of four years, while the professors and trustees, after making money enough to raise their own salaries to, say, $25,000 each, would be able to pay into the college treasury money enough to make Middlebury College far richer than Trinity Church. Clearly Dr. Hamlin is the man for the presidency of a struggling college, and in case any unauthorized person should hereafter ask for money in the name of Middlebury College, the public will know that such person is an impostor, and that the college is growing rich...
...ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit." Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres...
After a lapse of half a dozen ages, Harvard will be richer in all of its appointments than the University of 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...
...said that Yale undergraduates subscribe more freely to class objects than Harvard. The Yale freshmen subscribed $1700 to the crew, to Harvard's $464. Query : Are the Yale students, as a whole, richer than the Harvard students? - [Advertiser...
...years the wealth of Cornell university has increased nearly $3,000,000. It is now richer than Harvard...