Word: wealthier
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...replied, "a modified form of a phonograph. You see everything I say is taken down by the instrument, provided it is kept in motion. The necessity of keeping the crank revolving is what insures me an audience which remains awake," and the professor smiled grimly. "A few of the wealthier students, however, own note-takers which are run by a small electric motor, and these luxurious individuals send their instruments by some friend, and save themselves the trouble of coming." - Cornell...
...know which college is to be entrapped by this, but it must be a compromise for some one. The ridiculous ideas of the Harvard faculty about gate-money and fences are well known. Their idea is to cause all expense to be borne by the wealthier students, who can afford to subscribe to the maintenance of athletics. This for sooth brings about a spirit of democracy! Harvard democracy we had better call it. The seventh resolution caps the climax. Our patience has already been sorely tried, but the faculty have carefully kept the heaviest blow for the last. Our dear...
...meats. In school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert...
...country is certainly not compatible with a faithful, honest performance of those duties of study and self-improvement to which their university course ought to be devoted; nor with the promotion or preservation of that moral manliness and self-respect which alone form and develop the true gentleman. The wealthier young men of each college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer class-fellows are placed by the present system. They have either to contribute...
...wealthier students board at comfortable boarding-houses and get a full meal, and probably, too, eat French dishes and drink champagne twice a week in Boston; but the poorer class has to choose between a cheap and nasty boarding-house and Memorial Hall, and so does not get that amount of nutrition which a young man in full physical and intellectual activity requires, whereas in well-qualified hands Memorial Hall might be a great boon to the student. At Cambridge, England, in consequence of complaints, some of the fellows of colleges gave the commissariat their most careful personal supervision...