Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...described-indeed in so large a community of young men it would be strange if there was not. The almost entire freedom from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other...
...been canvassed, and yet fifty-eight dollars have been collected. In our enthusiasm we wildly dream that two dollars more may be scraped together, and the magnificent total of sixty dollars reached. Ninety, we are proud of you. You are a noble example of heroic self-sacrifice and lavish generosity. You must have been saving your pennies and denying yourselves candy and chewing-gum ever since you entered college! But what would a man not sacrifice for his college! Harvard men have always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety shall surpass...
...very noticeable that the Yale News is at present pursuing the policy - which is the policy of their athletic organization - of using undue persuasion in the shape of lavish compliment, offers of high advancement, donations of old shells and so forth, to make proselytes for their athletic teams among the various schools. It is a very well known fact that the St. Paul's club and other clubs at Yale are deliberately formed for this purpose, and that graduates of the different schools are sent to make converts of the most valuable athletes left in them. Now, although Yale...
...cabin on the bank of the Thames River at New London, seems altogether unnecessary. It indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely. No insinuation against the present manager is implied, but a protest against the habits of lavish expenditure, which has crept gradually, but surely, into many of the sporting organizations. The time has come to call for a halt. The sports have become so numerous and the number of games to be played so numerous, that the cost of supporting all is very large, and any unnecessary...
...living at German universities, notwithstanding the fact that the Germans are becoming fonder of spending money then they once were, is still very low as compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college; and probably a considerable part...