Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although the price of board at Memorial in March was over $5, its estimated cost for the first half of April is only $4.34, and its general average for the whole month will no doubt be below...
Williams has been more fortunate than Harvard with respect to the matter of board. The faculty has recently made arrangements by which board is given at the College Hall for less than cost. The rent of certain college rooms is appropriated towards reducing the price of board, and the actual cost per month, after the reduction, is divided among the students. So liberal an arrangement could not be otherwise than popular, and the accommodations of the hall are full, thus securing a permanent success for the plan. The board given is excellent, at an estimated cost of about...
...those for whose benefit it was undertaken, it should fail, its failure would carry with it the failure of the association, and the probable abandonment of the whole organization. For the sake, therefore, of preserving this institution, whose full value to themselves even they would realize to their cost if it should be removed, these men should come back to the hall at once. The directors have done their best, the corporation have done their best, the steward is doing his best. It only remains for the students at large to give their appreciative support and all will be well...
...threat is serious, or that, if so, the college would allow it to be put into execution. Certainly enough generous supporters of the foot-ball team will be found to liquidate this debt for them. Furthermore, we trust it will not be found impossible, on account of the cost, to adopt the Crimson's plan for the erection of a ladies' grand stand with some suitable covering or awning. The adoption of some similar plan for Jarvis, also, is, we think, a much needed improvement...
...just come to a passage which he could not understand when he was called upstairs by Mrs. Butterfield, who was in a state of considerable excitement. Mr. Butterfield had run across another item in the catalogue, headed "admission," which had driven all thoughts of the cost of living out of the heads of both him and his wife. Benjamin was catechised about what he knew, and as that is a question readily answered only by members of a graduating class, he innocently admitted that he did not know what he did know or what he did not know...