Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cost of living would be enhanced by a rise in the value of mutton.- Bulletin N. A, W. M., Vol. XVIII...
...result of last year's operations of the Co-operative Society are satisfactory. It will be remembered that last year a new system was begun, by which all members of the University may buy at the Society's store; prices are fixed a little above cost (though still, as a rule, considerably under ordinary retail prices) and the net profits are divided among members. Under this system the net surplus, on last year's operations, proved to be, in round numbers, $2.200. The directors will presumably vote, at a meeting which is to be held at an early date...
...president of Dartmouth college has ordered the students to build a cage, in which to practice base-ball during the winter, and he has himself subscribed $400 for that purpose. The cage will cost...
...library building which, when completed will be the finest and best equipped one attached to any college in this country. The money needed for the building is being raised from subscriptions by the alumni, and a large fund has already been collected. It is estimated that the library will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $180,000. The style of architecture is what is known as the French Gothic, designed and planned by a well-known Philadelphian architect, Mr. Frank Furness. The distance of the library from College Hall is so short that a covered way will probably connect...
...estimated that the edifice would cost $200,000, but it will probably take $30,000 more to complete it ready for the occupancy of the 115 students whom it is destined to accommodate...