Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notice in the morning that he shall not dine there is in some colleges never charged for his dinner, and in others only twice a week. His breakfast, luncheon and supper, if he choose to order any, are served in his rooms, and he can order at very moderate cost pretty much what he pleases, so that he is comparatively little dependent on the hall dinner; but that in most colleges is a comfortable, sustaining meal, washed down by some of the finest ale in England. The bad fare at Harvard has the effect of sending many students into Boston...
...Resolved, That in consideration of the fact that the estimated cost of board for March falls below $5, and that the directors will be acting in conformity with the suggestions of the committee of fifty in repealing the vote which provided that the hall should be closed on March 22d, therefore such vote is hereby repealed...
...That in the judgment of the directors the above arrangement will enable men who prefer the present board at five dollars to procure it for the same cost, while it will secure to those preferring lower rates and simpler fare a system which will fully meet their desires...
...last three months almost everything that has appeared in their columns, excepting their editorials (generally excellently written) and their venerable items, has been sheer nonsense; and nonsense that is not in the least amusing or laughable either, but nonsense of the most painful and tiresome kind. If it cost the writers one half the pains to write all of the stuff that it costs their readers to read it - why, I think they have our sincerest sympathy and commiseration in their woes. I call it rubbish and rot, and I claim that I am not too severe in doing...
...teaches self-reliance to a boy ought to be recommendation enough to paterfamilias, who should encourage his son to become proficient in the art of "hit, stop and get away." A broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts to these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment of boxing should be a part of every American...