Word: richer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choice of resisting this spirit on the ground that it is too practical, money-serving, and unprogressive, or of bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion to the population. If she does the latter, they will hold their rightful numbers, and her second degrees will increase in value as a badge...
...maintains, people in America neglect that side of cultivation which ancient Greece and her works of art represent, there can be no better way for Americans to redeem themselves than by contributing to help on the excavations of Delphi and then profiting by the result. There is probably no richer place for the excavation of works of Greek art than at Delphi to-day. The great nations of Europe, more appreciative of the advantages of such work, appropriate liberal sums from the state treasury for such purpose. With us it is left to private generosity to carry out such plans...
...European nations. The city abounds in dogs, which act as the scavengers of the place. The houses are huddled together, small and badly ventilated. They are built of stone and have few windows. The roofs are flat and covered with a sort of cement which is water-proof. The richer natives have houses with tiled roofs. The soldiers of the city are poorly fed and badly clothed, and are of a dull, stolid appearance. The heat in summer is excessive and particularly severe on the Europeans, who generally retire to villas on Mount Lebanon, which overlooks the city. Here...
...year. They were not known by name, but by number. They filed into the dining hall in the usual lockstep used in the penitentiaries. Such toasts as "Cops," "Nippers," "Bail," "Jugs," "Bars," "Beak," "Fines," etc., were responded to. The statistician of the occasion found that the city was $500 richer for the guests having been residents of Yale College. The misdemeanors for which the guests had been fined were stealing signs, building bonfires and singing hilarious songs, - Globe...
...excavation, and to publish the results of its work. While the older French and German schools at Athens have been maintained for many years by the liberality of the two governments which founded them, we are proud to feel that we have a never-failing source of beneficence, richer and wiser in its liberality than any public treasury, to which we can turn with confidence. The willingness and even eagerness of our men of wealth to take the place which ancient governments fill in Europe as patrons of learning is one of our national glories, to which each year...