Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lectures arranged by the Harvard Finance Club was given last evening in Sever Hall by Professor Andrews of Brown University. The speaker began by describing the great evils arising from fluctuations in the value of money. He said that falling prices may cause as much loss in the wealth of a nation as a national war. It is the inevitable tendency of gold and silver to increase in value notwithstanding the immense quantities added every year from the mines and the substitution of credit systems for money. The metals are subject to the law of diminishing returns, while all other...
...most remarkable addresses that has been heard for a long while at Harvard. Professor Norton said that the United States presents a spectacle never before seen in the history of the world-of sixty million people at peace and without fear. He spoke of the unparalleled growth in wealth and material resources which has marked this century of American life. To get wealth, much that is equally valuable and far more noble has been sacrificed. Fame, renown and honor have become weaker motives than they formerly were, and men's energies have been bent on the acquirement of material comfort...
...showing marvelous ability with a deficiency. Not that Yale is in debt or running behind, but her resources and income are unequal to her superb preparation for expansion and her great opportunities. I have no hesitation in saying, from a personal examination of the subject, that if the liberal wealth which is so freely bestowed when rightly informed could be given, to the extent of three or four millions, to Yale University, there would be in New Haven within five or six years an institution of learning so full, rounded and complete in every department of education, of thought...
...first of these terms is definite and clear, of the latter, loose and vague. There are three marks of culture, literary tastes, aesthetic tastes and ease and freedom in the forms of polite society. One having these marks is esteemed cultured, and since they depend largely upon leisure and wealth the ideas of culture and wealth have come to be so nearly associated that some persons have doubted if they could be separated. But my words will be of little use unless they refute this common idea. If then it does not consist in fine things does knowledge fulfill...
...Practical Economic Objections. (a) History of the Agitation. Bradstreet's selected numbers. (b) Effects, by strikes, in loss of wages, and in loss of capital and wealth. Bradstreet's, Ibid. (c) General failure of the agitation. Bradstreet's, January 8 and February 12, 1887. (d) Proof that agitation is premature. Bradstreet...