Word: solvent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with college modes of life. . . It is evident that the Freshmen . . . cannot hope to become familiar with the ways of college without some exterior assistance. They remain an amorphous but unamalgamated group in their present situation, and some definite means should be taken to submit them to the solvent of university life. CALIFORNIA ALUMNI FORTNIGHTLY...
...self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that in making their canvass the "drive" teams confront every manifestly solvent graduate with a demand for unpaid arrears of tuition, and then proceed to the more abstract obligations of college loyalty, pupilliary gratitude, and enlightened self-interest...
...designed as the social solvent of the university--the place where the unintroduced might dispense with the introduction. While perhaps not explicitly, it was, in general, the idea of its builders that, in this sanctuary of brown oak and leathern upholstery, one undergraduate stranger might accost another and spend that enjoyable hour of chat of two travellers thrown together by the fortunes of the road during the wait for a train on a remote station platform. To a limited extent (a very limited extent) the Union has fulfilled this purpose. But bricks and mortar will not shut out the prevailing...