Word: rueben
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...such that we have in America, it would be much more useful in aiding the higher education of Americans than is the present craze of founding universities. The "Presto, change!" of a millionaire cannot turn his money-bags into a university any more than he can manufacture a Rueben's by daubing $10,000 worth of paint upon a canvas. A true university ought to be the intellectual centre of a country, a place not only where a student can study the arts and sciences, but where the most intellectual men of the country can assemble and have time, apart...