Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more lately by some of the smaller New England colleges, has naturally acted somewhat as a check upon such a result. But the advertisement, the legitimate advertisement, for the university that follows upon this plan is a matter of no small account. As the Western States grow in wealth and in opportunities for higher education within their own borders, it will be but natural that they will more and more turn to the older and more thoroughly organized institutions of the East, and, we may hope, more particularly to Harvard as the completest representative of the university ideal in this...
...look with more respect when any great economic or social question is under discussion, and it should be their opinions which control the will of the people rather than the opinions of the so-called "self-made" men, - men who made a success in one direction - that of acquiring wealth - not by virtue of their ignorance, but in spite...
Concerning the disposal of Lord Ashburnham's famous collection of manuscripts now offered for sale, the Oxford Magazine thinks that "the subject is one on which Oxford ought to have an opinion and to express it. Surely it would be misplaced parsimony to allow such a mine of wealth for the scholar and antiquary to pass into the hands of Germany or America...
...depend on himself. If, beside opportunity, the college can furnish also the inspiration which shall make opportunity precious and fruitful, its work is accomplished. The college that fulfils these two conditions - opportunity and inspiration - will be a success, will draw to itself the frequency of youth, the patronage of wealth, the consensus of all the good. Nothing is so fatal to inspiration as excessive legislation. It creates two parties, the governors and the governed, with efforts mutually opposed; the governors seeking to establish an artificial order, the governed bent on maintaining their natural liberty. Professors should not be responsible...
Social and industrial questions, wealth, poverty, money, etc., are topics of interest to students of Political Economy, which Prof. W. G. Sumner of Yale proposes to treat in a series of articles to be published in Harper's Weekly. The series will be entitled, "Our Social Classes and what they Owe to Each Other...