Word: board
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cost of training table board is often as high as $14. The average amount contributed towards this by the individual is about $5, so that the net cost to the management is often $9. It seems that after allowance has been made for the better quality of food and the higher rate due to the small number of boarders, the cost is much above what it should...
...examining this subject, I have tried to find out what is the average amount men pay for their board, and how this price compares with the charges at the training table. From all I can gather, very few men pay more than $7 a week for board, and the average man pays approximately $5. Granted that a man in active competition requires more nourishing food than the inactive man, one concludes that training-table board should be offered for $8 or possibly $9 a week, allowing for a reasonable margin...
...realize the value of the training table to be equally great as in the case of the varsity sport; but, as the minor sports are run on a smaller scale, let them have their training table with a proportionately less expensive outlay and make it as near the average board as possible. Thus they would receive all the advantages of this institution and escape all censure for extravagance...
...BOARD OF OVERSEERS. Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...
...University of Virginia, is a practicing lawyer at Richmond. He was attorney general of Virginia from 1898 to 1902, and from 1902 to 1906 was governor of the state. As governor, he was a leader in Southern educational movements, and is now a member of the Southern Education Board. He introduced the legalized primary in Virginia, and has always been a leader in political reform...