Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intend to be present must have signed. It will not be necessary to wear dress suits at any of the class dinners. Song books have been printed for the use of the class at their triennial dinners. Those who wish to carry away copies can get them at cost of the committee at the dinner. It is especially requested that all copies not so purchased be left on the table. The class committee, in behalf of the class, heartily welcome any who have not felt able to subscribe to the class funds. Those who feel able to give, however little...
Fourth - The motives for study induced by the system are, we believe, unworthy ones, and especially unworthy of students who are to go into the world as exponents of the higher education of woman. The spirit of emulation - the desire to shine, at any cost, on commencement day are not the motives which will develop the students of Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students...
Johns Hopkins University has already cost between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. The buildings cost about $400,000, and there are the salaries, the library, laboratories, apparatus, etc. In the past year the salaries, fellowships, etc., have taken nearly $100,000 from the income. The annual receipts are about $225,000, and from this income the expenditures are made...
Dividing this balance, $10,257.41, by 2281, the number of weeks, gives $4.50, and adding head-money, $.05, we have $4.55 as the cost of board per week during the month of May. An analysis of this charge, $4.55, gives the following result...
...will probably be objected, as usual, that these things cost too much, and that we can't expect to get a four dollar a day board for $4.50 a week. But what we want more that anything else is a change, and this can easily be afforded us without any undue expenditure. It is really remarkable the way in which Memorial seems to be bound to a certain bill of fare that inevitably swings around into the same old notch with each recurring week. The steward and his cooks do not seem to realize the unlimited capacities of their situations...