Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obtain it. To each member of the graduating class I sent a circular asking if he would be willing to tell me in confidence what his college course had cost. I desired him to include in his report all expenses whatever. He was to state not merely his tuition, board and lodging, but also his furniture, books, clothing, travel, subscription and amusements; in fact, every dollar he had spent during the four years of his study, except his charge for Class Day and the summer vacation these times (?) that they could not instructively enter into an average...
...circumstances to make it so. An excellent education is unquestionably a costly thing, and to live where many men wish to live calls for a good deal of money. We have it is true, Memorial Hall, which lessens our expense for food, but it costs $150 a year to board here. Our tuition bill each year is $150. The University owns 450 rooms, but not one-third of them rent for less than $150 a year, the average rent being $146. There large charges for tuition and room rent are made necessary by the smallness of the general fund, which...
...Lawpoon makes its first appearance this season today. Under the regime of the '88 board, the tone of that paper have been steadily advancing and the present number shows an exceptional excellence in its well executed pictures and the humor of its articles. There is no college paper which labors under more difficulties than the Lampoon and none in which success should be more assured. The experiment of starting the same kind of a publication at other colleges has proved a dismal failure, and every student should show his appreciation of the energy and push which has been displayed...
...Every office shall be voted for separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce, and shall be recorded on the black-board by the clerk, but votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited...
...second time the Cambridge common councilmen have killed an order passed by a large majority in the board of aldermen for the introduction of the police signal system...