Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...government, (i. e., the faculty,) to the president's, where we were very respectably treated with wine, etc. We then marched in procession to Jackson's room, where we drank punch. At one we went to Mr. Moore's tavern and partook of an elegant entertainment which cost 6s. 8d. ($1.06 1/4) apiece. Marching then to Cutler's room, we shook hands and parted, with expressing tokens of the sincerest friendship...
...every person they seem to be first-class photographs. In fact they are Albertypes, made by the Forbes Co., and are almost indiscernable from photographs. By comparing the prices of these prints with the prices of photographs, it will be seen that these pictures - equally as good - do not cost one-half as much as photographs. Moreover, these forty prints are to be bound in one special edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings," which will be out in ten days. Then any one who has this book will have a convenient and accurate guide-book, an interesting historical sketch...
...book-store will probably find a revolution in this particular, for Mr. King will endeavor to give the very lowest terms possible, and by importing his books directly from the European publishers he will be able to get desired books at the earliest moment and at the smallest cost. Next autumn he will have on hand at all times the catalogues of the various publishers of Europe and America, so as to be able to give to callers or buyers a definite and prompt reply in answer to their questions of price and other details regarding books. New books...
...handsome volume of poetry, "Exeter, School Days and Other Poems," will not forget their obligations to him, and accordingly call in at Moses King's book-store, and get their copies before leaving Cambridge for the summer vacation. Although the book was made chiefly for the subscribers, and its cost was incurred by reason of confidence in the subscribers, a number of copies additional were made to supply such additional orders as might reasonably be expected to come in. A few of these copies still remain unsold, and can be obtained of the publisher in Cambridge, or of Mr. Hudgens...
...momentous change has now been inaugurated in the external arrangements and in the inner life of the University of Cambridge. Formerly the university was little more than a name. The individual colleges were everything. Now that is changed. The university is to provide professors at the cost of the colleges, and all the students will be forced to attend their lectures. But the greatest change of all is the abolition of the enforced celibacy of the fellows. Other changes are the almost entire extinction of clerical fellowships, the separation of endowments from special schools and from the more private...