Word: riches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...snob, but because I appreciate more and more every day the practical value of a liberal education, and because the University Club stands before the community as a continual reminder that some other door must remain closed to those who have not acquired such an education. [Applause.] Said a rich man to me not long ago, as we were passing the Club House: "I would give half of my fortune if I were eligible for admission there," but, thank God! there's one thing in New York that money can't buy. And I have no doubt that the existence...
...then closed the regular debate for the affirmative and negative respectively. When the debate was opened to the house, some of the best speakers in college took the floor. Among them, Currier, '87, Coffin, '85, and Roundy, '85, spoke for the negative; and Fraser, '86, Hansen, '85, Hobson, '86, Rich, '87, Hoar, L. S., Saunders, '84, and Jennings, '86, for the affirmative. The majority of the audience as well as speakers, were on the side of the negative, as all the votes showed. Messrs. Hoar, Saunders and Scofield, received the most applause for their efforts. The debate then returned...
...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 with miraculous rapidity...
...wife, and who was the daughter of a New York banker. The professor's voice has a peculiar, rotund, impetuous quality, and it was never poured forth in greater volume than when he said in one of his lectures: "About this time Goethe fell in love with a rich banker's daughter in New York city." There was a roar from the students, while boots and canes rattled upon the floor like an avalanche of cobble stones in a shot tower. Boyesen covered his crimson face with his hands and turned his back to his class. That lecture was resumed...
...these towers stands the chapel, a beautiful specimen of architecture, with its fine entrance porch covered with ivy. The interior, although fine, is not striking; the elaborately carved screen dividing it into two parts spoiling the symmetry of the aisles, while the stained glass windows are not particularly rich, most of the original glass having been broken by the Roundheads during the parliamentary wars. The organ is an excellent instrument and the Magdalen choir is one of the best in Oxford. A stone stairway leads to the Great Hall, which is well paneled with old oak and contains some good...