Word: richest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...many, many years to come even the richest American universities will need to apply all the money they receive to the endowment of instruction and research (not separately, but together), the acquisition of grounds, buildings, collections, and instruments, and the enlargement of their means of providing a gratuitous education for promising young men of slender means. When these more pressing objects are accomplished, they may, perhaps, begin to think of offering money-prizes, accessible to rich or poor, for notable attainments at school and at the university, and of providing for the comfortable support of able young men, rich...
...richest room in the old boroughtown...
...Tripod gives us the surprising information that the Northwestern University will soon be the "richest on the globe," but growls that "it does not spend a cent for the support of its paper." Perhaps this is owing to the fact that the "Faculty and Christian students" are indulging in a religious revival, usually an expensive excitement. "The watchword is the NORTHWESTERN for God and His Christ." We now find the answer to that much-vexed question, Why does not God kill the Devil? Of course, he left him to be killed by the Northwestern University. Now, indeed...
...within, in richest velvets...
Hung with the richest purple tapestries...