Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suite of rooms; the second floor will contain four suites of rooms, with a study and bedroom for each suite, and a large bath-room; the third floor will have three suites of rooms and a fine lodge room for the secret meetings of the society. The total cost is estimated...
...20th. The price has been fixed at $2 a plate. It is hoped that the low figure will secure a large attendance from the club. It has also been decided that any member of the college who is not a member of the club may attend at the additional cost of fifty cents. The club extends a cordial invitation to non-members, and it is hoped that the different athletic organizations may be well represented to aid in the success of the dinner. A book has been placed at Bartlett's; also names will be received by the following committee...
...hall would not be amiss. The reason the directors gave for taking away our soothing mocha was that it was too expensive. But I fear that they have but an ill appreciation of economy. While we cannot have our cup of coffee, since it would incur the enormous cost of seven cents per week, still some favored gentlemen have the privilege of a private room, which entails the extra expense of gas, keeping the room clean, etc. Since, by personal observation, there are five or six empty tables in the hall, why must we bear this expense? Should the luxuries...
...forbidding its students to take part in inter-collegiate athletics for the future the Amherst faculty has passed resolutions "deploring the present demoralizing tendency of inter-collegiate athletic games, expressing the conviction that the cost of these games in time, money and energy expended brings no compensating advantage, and decreeing that the college shall cease to take part in them, whenever the present engagements have been fulfilled, or after the close of the present collegiate year." The resolutions also express their cordial approval of games and athletic contests which take place on the students' home grounds...
...railing. These improvements are not to exceed three hundred dollars. Messrs. Hubbard and Cushing were appointed a committee of supervision. After a pretty thorough and general discussion of the coffee question, the whole matter was left as at present, for another trial. The steward reported that the extra cost of coffee for dinner was about seven cents per week for each...