Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some, however, who never recover from the first rude awakening from their dreams of their brilliant possibilities. Because they cannot be first they will be nothing. If they have means to live upon, they will drift along in a life of cynicism and pessimism; if not blessed with wealth they will follow that occupation which offers them the means of subsistence with the least effort on their part. Had they only learned the lesson that man's happiness does not depend upon the height to which he rises, but to the well performance of that duty, however humble, which falls...
...Just as our own alma mater is without doubt the principal, if not, in the true sense of the term, the only university in the west, so Harvard is certainly the university of the east, and by reason of its age and wealth, with the great advantages and opportunities thereby afforded, there is but little doubt that "Fair Harvard" can with justice claim the proud distinction of being the foremost university in America...
...that with this condition favorable, Harvard is a good place for a man to have a good time, and to see something of the world, but that he must do his studying elsewhere. Nothing is more erroneous than this idea. Harvard is a place where, in point of wealth, the extremes meet, and that is just what the governing authorities intend it should be. To the young man with money, that he doesn't know what to do with, every opportunity is afforded of spending it. The tuition fee is high, and expensive board and rooms may be easily obtained...
Each of the Nations has a club-house, its elaborateness depending on the wealth of the society. In every one of the principal clubs, there is a large hall of sufficient size to hold four or five hundred men. Here the great fetes take place, and banquets are given to the other Nations, the hall being used also as a ball-room on such occasions. At ordinary times the hall is used as a gathering place for the men where they smoke, gossip and listen to music by some of their number. Nothing goes...
...Latin, while at Upsala and Lund they are required. The two latter universities have a somewhat arbitrary curriculum, while Stockholm gives a man great freedom of choice in his studies for a degree. By this course, although the youngest, she bids fair soon to rival even Upsala in wealth and numbers. All three of the universities are open to both sexes, and at Stockholm there is a chair in the highest mathematics occupied by a woman...