Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...started and looked suspicious as the N. C. broke suddenly off, and rose, saying, "Thanks for information. Don't trouble yourself about a card. Here's mine." And with the light step and smiling face of a true philanthropist, passed rapidly up one of the side streets near Beck Hall and disappeared. The T. F. seemed amazed, but this was nothing to the expression which came over his face as he read on the pasteboard...
Great Caesar's ghost! "The debts and liabilities of members of the Universities arranged for them, or settled." Think of this! Debts may be contracted to any amount, and a philanthropist is at hand to "arrange" them, or, if more convenient, to entirely relieve you of the disagreeable necessity of settling them. We are inclined to think that if such an obliging person opened his "Private Banking-House" in Cambridge, we should hereafter deny ourselves no luxury. Of the two plans of removing the incumbrances, the latter is the only one to be considered. Why bother to have your debts...
...PHILANTHROPIST in doubt where to invest his money for the greatest good of the public would have had his doubts dispelled if he had passed the Bursar's Office at any time on Tuesday night. The sight of nearly a dozen men sitting up all night to secure some of the poorest rooms in college because they could get none in any other way, would have moved a heart of stone, to say nothing of the heart of a philanthropist. Unfortunately no philanthropist passed by, and the prospect of new dormitories is as far off as ever...
...reached its present position mainly through the personal efforts and the personal popularity of Professor Agassiz. But to extend the building or even to support its present necessary expenses, large sums are needed. The amount of these is so large as to be beyond the limit which a private philanthropist can hope to reach. It is a most natural course, then, to ask that the State shall assume this burden, which is a comparatively light one when we consider the sums annually wasted in corrupt and useless schemes. We are happy to say that the Legislature, although the same body...