Word: wherewithal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from past experience, obviously necessary to have a college infirmary; but an infirmary without an adequate income could not be run on a scale which would make it of much value. Princeton University has a good infirmary, but with no endowment or fixed means of raising income wherewith to run it, it is not much better than inoperative. If Harvard had a good infirmary, well supported, many of those fellows who were spoken of today as "always going home in case of illness," would find it more convenient to go to the infirmary instead, and they as well...
...only does Nature furnish us the foundation on which to build; she also gives us the forces wherewith the hard work of the world shall be done. Men are studying and mastering the forces of Nature to make them do their drudgery. God grinds our grist for us if we will...