Word: cost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...late a marked decrease in quality. Evidence of the quality of board furnished is found in the amount expended by the members for extra orders. The orders thus far this year amount to about seventy-five hundred dollars. A short calculation shows that this really means an average cost of board of $4.35 per member per week...
...terrestrial and aquatic, has been established which has proved of great value in making practical demonstrations of plant life. Explorations under the direction of the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology have been made in South America, Florida, Yucatan, Babylonia, Honduras, Corea, Guatemala and Egypt, and a university museum to cost $300,000 is under...
...remedies, the President says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high qualities are exercised for no adequate end." With the last sentence perhaps many of us will disagree; and no doubt with the present sharp intercollegiate rivalry and the strong desire to win, many would dislike to see the suggestions...
...building will be completed by next fall if possible. It will aim to put the cost of living within the means of every student; the large number of students will probably reduce the price of board to between seven and ten dollars a week...
Fifty years ago next September Louis Agassiz was made a professor of Harvard. The Museum founded by him in 1859 has since developed into an establishment which has cost over a million of dollars, and which has an invested endowment of nearly $600,000. However, the building which he planned is not yet finished and, although his son and successor as Director of the Museum has aided the Museum financially, the poverty of the establishment is hardly concealed. The later generations who are reaping the benefit of Agassiz's great inspiration should hasten the completion of the Museum...