Word: riches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...improved methods in preparatory schools and by the division of the examination. A very interesting table is given of the variety of occupations of the fathers of students, showing that almost every class of society is represented, and that the greater part of the students are neither very rich nor very poor, - the proportions of the poor and of the rich, both small, being about equal. It is also shown that high education is hereditary in this country, as in all others. Another table shows that the constituency of the College has increased within the last ten years; the proportionate...
Come I from the lands of rich Cathay...
...universal affirmative or negative is not to be cultivated in writings of a controversial nature. Having published with boldness "that culture is only the perfect blossom of moral character," singularly enough a few lines later he tells us "that it is, in short, only the result of long study, rich experience," and moral character. By which happy compromise we are left in doubt as to how far he asserts that culture comes from morality which language, used in its ordinary acceptation, is indeed the dispings of a new philosophy...
Shorter paths to reach rich Cathay...
...Harvard builds grand Memorial Halls, but the student turns away from their magnificent proportions to gaze upon Hollis, Massachusetts, and Stoughton Halls, rich with memories of the past. It must be confessed that they are not calculated to remind one of home. The wood-work is rough and unpainted; the windows are dirty and dim; the walls are dingy and smoked. Yet the Harvard student counts it a privilege to stretch his limbs beneath their mossy roofs, and the older the building is the more valuable becomes his habitation. He cares not for the rickety stairs or unpainted walls...