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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dividing this balance, $12,232.73, by 2669, the number of weeks, gives $4.58, and adding head money, 4 cents, gives $1.62 as the cost of board per week during the month of November. An analysis of this charge of $4.62 gives the following result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL. | 12/15/1882 | See Source »

...reading room and that an association can be organized and run successfully if those who are interested will cooperate, we have taken upon ourselves the responsibility of making the first move. The bursar has given the use of Massachusetts 2, one of us having become responsible for the cost of heating and lighting and for such other incidental expenses as the college may incur. The Union has kindly loaned the reading room furniture now in its possession. By the courtesy of the college papers the best known college exchanges will be kept on file. The expense of heating has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A READING ROOM. | 12/9/1882 | See Source »

...estimated cost of the forthcoming Science for the first year is upwards of $40,000, of which the receipts are expected to furnish $20,000, the net loss of $20,000 being considered merely a contribution to science in America, in the same manner that an endowment might be made to Harvard University for a professorship in some deparment of science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/9/1882 | See Source »

...assume its present name. It was designed to enable students somewhat younger than ordinary undergraduates to pass through a university course and obtain a university degree, to train in the art of teaching those students who desire to become schoolmasters, and to secure the greatest possible economy in cost as well as time. In these aims it has succeeded. Its students obtain their degrees at the age of nineteen, and it is found that the annual change of Pound84 is sufficient to cover all expenses of college and university life. The college comprises students of all denominations. Its educational success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/2/1882 | See Source »

...suppression of the yellow fever epidemic in Texas this year cost the government $35,000. One hundred thousand dollars was appropriated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 11/29/1882 | See Source »

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