Word: cost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trustees of the University of Virginia propose to erect four new buildings in place of those recently burned. There will be an academical building, to cost $90,000; a physical laboratory, costing $30,000; a building for the law school, costing $20,000; and a new rotunda, to cost...
...University of Michigan is to have a new gymnasium for women, which will cost about...
...University of Michigan is to have a new gymnasium for women, which will cost about...
...Friday evening at the University Club over 200 men, mostly Harvard alumni, listened to an address by Caspar W. Whitney on "Purity in Athletics." The speaker referred to the great menace offered to college athletics by the desire to win at any cost. In this way the semi-professionalism now existing at some colleges is introduced. It rests largely with the alumni to check this dangerous tendency. They should use all their influence to put athletics where they belong-on the basis of true sport...
...invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong. If this is done it will surely invite a repetition of the wrong...