"It's one thing to pursue your dreams, but if you're borrowing to pursue them, you have to make sure you have a plan to pay them back," says Kantrowitz, who reports that graduates with large amounts of debt tend to subsequently delay other life cycles -- things like buying a car and getting married, not to mention saving for retirement and eventually financing their own child's education.
But private and county money eventually financed a tunnel.
The Bakerloo was eventually financed and finished by American tycoon Charles Yerkes, but the part-finished works at Oxford Circus were so unsatisfactory that the below-ground parts had to be completely rebuilt, giving the station the doubtful privilege of having been the only Underground station to be rebuilt before it actually opened.
Proposals poured in and the board eventually financed projects involving 210 schools.
And Magellan died in the Philippines for the sake of some cloves (which would eventually finance his expedition's circumnavigation of the globe).
The factory's output eventually finances the construction of a spaceship that reaches a planet rich with cookies, and so on.
Cloud Atlas was eventually financed, appropriately, with a patchwork of international capital: part-Warner, part-German Federal Film Fund, part-Asian investors, part-preselling distribution rights to territories around the globe.
The 1786 late-Georgian house on Power Street built by John Brown, a great China Trade merchant from the family that eventually financed Brown University, possesses one of those wonders of Providence furniture design, a rare nine-shell, blocked-front bookcase and desk, as well as many treasures from the East.
Or he imagines owning a chain of small businesses -- "stores, laundromats, grocery stores, gas stations, barber shops, movie theaters" -- that would put poor people and ex-convicts to work, and eventually finance loftier goals: an appellate and investigative service for wrongfully convicted inmates, and a halfway house for convicts returning to society.
The team's owner, Harry Frazee, who moonlighted as a Broadway producer, sealed a deal that sent Ruth to the loathsome New York Yankees for a sum that would eventually finance his new show, "No, No Nanette," triggering the famous Curse of the Bambino.
