Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best single reference; Gunton's Wealth and Progress...
...fact that the college works with so many hands and covers so much ground is what keeps her so wretchedly poor. For, to suppose that Harvard is just rolling in wealth and doesn't know what to do with her cash is about as correct as that divinity-school estimate of the college quadrangle. Harvard would be rich if she were not ambitious. Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain...
...They dictate to their employers, whose business they strive to rule; (b) they have sanctioned violence, and even aided in murder; (c) they persecute non-members; (d) they prevent the employment of capital, cause stagnation of business, and, hence, great loss of wealth; (e) they drive many of their members to crime and dissipation through loss of employment.- F. W. Taussig on south-western strike in Journal of Economics, Jan. 1887; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13, 1887: Nation, Vol. 42, pp. 338, 401, 402, 418, 440, 441; also Vol. 43, pp., 469, 470; Boston Herald, March 21, 1886; Bradstreet...
...Magazine of American History. The first article, "Our Country Fifty Years Ago," is a summary of Lafayette's visit to this country in 1824 and cannot fail to awaken in the minds of every one who reads it the appreciation of the vast strides in culture and wealth which has been made in the United States during the past half-century. The present generation are apt to forget the condition of their country so many years ago, and neglect to realize the mighty advancement of every branch of industry. The contrast is well set off by Mrs. Lamb...
...debated lately. At our commencement dinner a year ago our chairman insisted that the ideal of the University should be plain living and high thinking. And certainly there is apt to be something vulgar, as well as vicious, in the man of books who turns away from winning intellectual wealth and indulges in tawdry extravagance. Yet every friend of Harvard is obliged to acknowledge with shame that the loose spender has a lodging in our yard...