Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest with the manuscripts and manuscript letters in the room. There are four plain cases which contain these literary rarities. Perhaps the most valuable and most incomprehensible to the majority of visitors are the Biblical manuscripts. There are about ten in one case, not the least of which cost three hundred francs. They range from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The oldest purports to be of the eighth century, and, "if so, is the oldest manuscript on the American continent." The majority are pictured manuscripts, and the gorgeousness of illustration is indescribable. Especially notable is the diversity of colors...
...months, a decided improvement on our plan, and the privilege of entering three or four times a year is given. Gentlemen appear only for dinner at the public dining halls, other meals are served in the room by the "scout." This, combined with many other circumstances, makes the cost of living much higher than among...
...record of Harvard ever having been defeated by another college lacrosse team. At this time an attempt was made to form a second team, but there is no evidence that the idea was carried into practice. About this time a wise move was the payment of $25 toward the cost of the net in the gymnasium, whereby the lacrosse team secured the right, next after the ball nine, to use the cage...
...senior class is to be congratulated upon its final and satisfactory solution of the heliotype album question. It is certainly an excellent custom to see established for the graduating class to be able to secure a complete class album at a moderate cost. We hope that the precedent thus established will be followed by all succeeding classes...
...misunderstanding between Pach Bros. and the Heliotype Company is much to be regretted. If seniors could always obtain albums with pictures of each member of their class at so small a cost as $12, it would probably soon become a custom for the graduating class to have heliotype albums. It is now for '83 to decide whether they shall have the albums at $18. It should be borne in mind that the albums offered for $18 will be much more desirable than those that were to be sold at $12. Instead of four there will be only two pictures...