Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expressed. These opinions come to us largely from men of experience. The professions are over-crowded. There is plenty of room for genius, but little room for mediocre ability. The days are past when the mere fact of possessing a college education ensures a man even the means of support. More men every day are devoting themselves to specialties. The time has gone by when the lawyer can meet all the various complexities which are brought to him by his clients. So very vague is the presentation of the condition of things that a terse statement of facts is most...
...file can be enjoyed until 8.30. The accommodations are limited by the funds that are forthcoming. If every one who appreciates this revived institution will become a recruiting agent, larger quarters can be obtained, more papers placed on file, and the accommodations increased. We do not beg for support for the reading-room, but we do assert most emphatically that it can be made a vital source of good in our college, and that all who step forward with their initiation fees will receive full compensation...
...living at least while pursuing any branch of learning, even though the benefits of the education are entirely selfish ones. It is their way of "elevating the masses," and a futile and often disastrous way it is, too. There are earnest attempts among many of the students to support themselves honestly while studying, some even in Vienna, working as night street-sweepers. Nothing derogatory can be said of this class, for there is only a matter of choice between street-sweeping and waiting on hotel tables. Still, on the other hand there is a great swarm of men imbued with...
...Hopkins House of Commons has always met with the most courteous support from the faculty of the university, the president and professors encouraging the students to join, and frequently proposing subjects for debate. On one occasion, I remember, the Professor of Political Economy handed a bill, entirely prepared, to the ministry to be introduced...
...college from all this district is the same that it was five years ago. We have from the state of Minnesota three men, and this notwithstanding the fact that all that region has doubled in population since that time. Cannot a reason for Princeton's lack of support in this quarter be found in the fact that in all that expanse of country lying Northwest of Chicago, containing the two great cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, with a population between them of 250,000, does not contain any association of Princeton alumni? If those having in charge the forming...