Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This last offence promises to be a very serious one. The cost of replacing the lamps, if they are replaced, will be at the rate of $16 per lamp, amounting in the aggregate to $272. It is said that the citizens of Princeton are naturally unwilling to bear this expense, and that every effort will be made to bring the offending parties to justice. It is generally very hard to detect students, and, in case these escape, it is a question whether the college will pay for the lamps; it seems to me that it would be eminently short-sighted...
...subscriptions or by training, for the honor of the Crimson. The Football Team, of which we were all so proud, was well supported, it is true, when it went to New Haven, and realized a sum sufficient to be a decided help in paying its expenses. But the cost of the two New York trips was large, and on account of the bad weather but very little money was taken at the gate, so that the Team fell considerably behind in finances. The managers are now going among the students, trying to stir them up to a little more enthusiastic...
...launch which was built for Yale last year at a cost of $2,300 has proved a failure...
...There's nothing like it. Remember how Jacob wrestled with the angel. Do you in like manner wrestle with bon mots. Affect to read strange and uncommon books. Be unusual in your tastes. Be any thing rather than nothing. You must keep prominently before people's eyes at any cost; for so long as you are notorious there is some hope of your becoming famous. Above all, keep trying. You will sometimes feel like relaxing for a moment, and saying or doing something natural. Don't! It would be ruinous. The chances are ten to one you would say something...
...Matthews is said to receive a salary of $1,200; his entire income as "scout" from forty rooms is at least $1,200; he employs four "goodies," paying them all four $360, and an assistant at $135, and a "scout," to black boots, &c., at $75; for the cost of utensils, allow $40. The coal for heating the building is furnished by the College. His running expenses, then, are $600, leaving, from his total receipts, $2,400, an income of $1,800. The janitor of Weld receives from the College $1,000, and, as nearly as can be estimated...