Word: richer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia man was running around Holmes field Saturday looking for some one to take three to one on Princeton. When Harvard won he said he was happy and seventy-five dollars richer than if he had found a taker...
...college walls that it is impossible for a poor boy to work his way through Harvard. That this impression is false is shown by the fact that students graduate every year who have obtained their education unassisted, and cases are not unknown of such students coming out considerably richer than when they went in. There are two resources which the poor student has-first, the college; second, himself. Probably no institution in the world offers more pecuniary aid to students than Harvard." The writer goes on to enumerate the various ways in which the college assists the needy student. After...
...conductor of the night car between Cambridge and Boston will be richer one year from now than he is today. The reason is this : About one week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from...
...Richer gifts on her altar...
...charge of a professor of physics, who had borrowed it from Edison expressly for this occasion. The enlivening strains of heavenly melody, the brightly flashing armor of the knights, the brilliant galaxy of starry loveliness, the ferocious roaring of the imprisoned monsters, - all combined to make a scene richer than...