Word: richness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professors and instructors is worse paid than at many of the smaller colleges, and yet they refuse the most tempting offers ot go elsewhere, sacrificing themselves for the love of their alma mater. And still the hue and cry continues, "Don't go to Harvard unless you are rich." It is impossible to see how such a mistaken impression about a place should exist where, in the very heart of its life, we find enshrined the spirit of Spartan poverty and simplicity...
...hands and covers so much ground is what keeps her so wretchedly poor. For, to suppose that Harvard is just rolling in wealth and doesn't know what to do with her cash is about as correct as that divinity-school estimate of the college quadrangle. Harvard would be rich if she were not ambitious. Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain, but only the good begining of something which...
...RICH, Secretary.THOSE who have not yet paid their subscriptions to the freshman eleven will confer a favor on the manager by leaving them at Leavitt and Peirce's, or by sending them to R. H. Post, 48 Brattle street, Cambridge...
...RICH, Secretary.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB.- The club will hold its regular shoot this (Friday) afternoon at Watertown. Carleaves...
...very lively sketch, and gives signs of quite a good deal of study of human nature. Particularly good is the description of the way in which a man's thoughts "begin to revolve around themselves" in a ride to Boston. "In June" is very melodious and sounds like two rich warm opening chords to a pastorate symphony. One regrets the absence of the pastorate symphony. "Ma Contemporaine," a translation from Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen...