Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coming in. Expensive boats were bought, used for one race, and then laid on the rests to rot. The University Boat-House was kept, at the expense of all, for the use of a few patient fellows, who were trained and scolded and worked, and then beaten. To afford cheap rowing for all another boat-house was built, and another lot of boats bought (or rather taken, for I believe they are not yet paid for), and the club system inaugurated. The club members had to pay, in addition to their subscriptions to the crew, a good deal of money...
...aware that the finances of the College are not in a flourishing state. For all that, when a Corporation continues charging students exorbitant rents, and at the same time employing for students cheap and inefficient labor, it is carrying economy a little too far. It may be urged that the person who has charge of the College domestics makes frequent visits to the rooms and inspects the work, but it can be said in reply that, although Mrs. Ames may be satisfied with the way work is done in College rooms at forty cents a week, the occupants...
...sizes, positions, and prices, - a variety, we should have supposed, sufficient to please the most fastidious. If the price of a room is three hundred dollars, and an applicant finds it exorbitant, the College kindly offers him a pleasant and sunny room for forty. There are dear rooms and cheap rooms, and each one can take his choice. The writer of the article in the Advocate makes an error of judgment when he compares Harvard's dormitories and prices unfavorably with those of other colleges. He says that the best rooms in Tufts are seventy-five dollars; but who would...
...that so much sameness is displayed in the furniture and general aspect of our College rooms? Is there so much similarity in men's tastes that they converge by some natural law towards red curtains, cheap prints (obtained we all know how), photographs of Soldene, Aimee, etc., etc.; or, is it merely because it is easier to fit up a room after the stereotyped pattern of one's neighbor's, than to exercise individual taste...
...page. The only historical precedent for such action I can think of is the appropriation by the schoolmen of the manuscripts of the classical authors for their own worthless scribblings. But then the schoolmen lived at a time when parchment was scarce and dear; now, when stationery is so cheap, the impropriety of any such mediaeval practice is too apparent to admit of further comment...