Word: earning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought before a judge by his wife, on the charge of having married her under false pretences. He had given out that he was master of the trade of stringing pearls, but, when called upon to earn his living, said that the pearls he meant were the pearls of speech. The judge was pleased with the fellow's ingenuity, and, after urging the woman to submit to the will of her lord, dismissed the man with a present of money. In the eleventh the narrator sees...
...three years hardly cares to court a D by taking a subject that he realizes he may get that mark on,- no matter though the course be both desirable and beneficial. The rule stands as a temptation to take snap courses and as a beacon light to earn men from instructors who have the reputation of being hard markers, although these self same instructors may be among the most desirable men to be under, in the college. Moreover it kills the ambition which a lower classman may have, for a D once received in the freshman year, all hope...
...what they would probably be willing to give if they fully understood the facts, a fund could be accumulated which would yield an income sufficient to pay men like Professors Bowen, Child, Norton, Gibbs, Cooke, Dunbar, Peirce, Goodale, Shaler and Royce amounts nearly as large as they could earn by their pens if they devoted their entire time to literary work. At pres serving the university. It is to their credit that they make this sacrifice, but it is anything but creditable for the Harvard alumni to allow year after year to go by without making an effort...
...members of the University and all occupations. Any student whether he wishes to enter the ranks of journalists or of lawyers, or whether he wishes to obtain a situation as a salesman or as a book-keeper, or if he merely desires any work which will help him to earn his living, will receive now, by application to the secretary, the kindest consideration, and in all probability a situation will be awaiting him before many days...
...tell them how kind I think them. A rather intrusive question has been answered with courtesy. Men have replied with much minuteness, have ransacked old account-books, have explained sudden variations of expenses occuring in successive years, have reported the means by which they have been able to earn money, have offered valuable criticisms of their own outlays and of those modes of living here which in their judgement materially increase or diminish cost. Again and again they have frankly acknowledged extravagance, and about as often have confided to me their struggles to live on less than was wise...