Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gambling rooms at 146 A Tremont street, are pronounced by the Advertiser to be "the rendezvous for young men of wealth and education.' The "Royal," as the establishment is called, is said to count among its best customers the undergraduates of Harvard and other colleges. "The freshmen and sophomores of the colleges, and those upper classmen whose taste for miscellaneous gambling outlives their verdancy, make the "Royal" the centre of their senseless and criminal amusement. It is reported that gambling at Harvard and other colleges has increased rapidly within a few years, and although most of the older students...
...another department of university growth, which is a more important element in true university prosperity. The position of a college depends greatly on the stamp of the average student. That college which attracts the ambitious, zealous young men of our country will, in the future, be the leading college. Wealth, fortunate location, and noted professors contribute much to the success of any college, but a generation of earnest, ambitious students will do more toward this end than all the other causes combined. The following, then, seems to be a just criterion of the advisability of these new reforms...
...Paris has her seamy side! The grand boulevards, the stately buildings, the culture, fashion, wealth, gaiety, are what we usually see. But in the old quarters of the city are dark, crooked streets and dens of shamelessness and crime. There are quarters over which Ignorance and Vice brood like an eternal nightmare. Stunted and distorted human beings grovel in congenial ignominy; children are born in this pestilential atmosphere, are born and grow up, are asphyxiated, and die; and the filthy wheel of the city's life turns round and round. And whither does the human offal from these noisome streets...
From the Dartmouth we learn that Harvard has failed to turn out a number of "great men" proportionate to the number of dollars represented by the endowment. The views of our e. c. on the ratio of genius to college wealth are novel, to say the least. The Dartmouth says: "It is a moderate statement to affirm that in proportion to its wealth and outward facilities, Dartmouth has exerted a far mightier influence for good than Harvard. To equalize the record, Harvard ought to have produced some nine or ten Websters or Choates. But she has not done...
...column of Special Notices in the CRIMSON reaches stupendous proportions about the time of the examination period, as we have seen in the issues of the past week or so. What mines of wealth, in the form of many bits and shekels, must just roll into the CRIMSON'S treasury ! Tutors' notices pour in day after day, until it would seem that there was not a course in college that was not represented. What does it all signify? Does it really pay the tutors to advertise? Were I interested in the CRIMSON, I should certainly say that it paid-paid...