Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have obtained our higher ends, however, at the cost of comfort and convenience, our slender means having been expended upon the intellectual rather than the material needs of the institution. We have been crowded into four small hired rooms, never snfficient for our purpose either in point of space, ventilation, or general accommodation, and these rooms we have now wholly outgrown...
...been for its splendid fielding and heavy batting we should have lost more than one game simply through this fault. There are doubtless, reasons why every man cannot be a good base runner, but there is no excuse for the poor coaching, which has cost us many a run this season. If there is anything which disgusts spectators it is to see a man fail to make a base when opportunity is offered, or try to run more bases than his hit will give him, or, worst of all, caught nap ping at his base. It seems too bad that...
...college in every sense pursues a wise course in requiring that they who enter the fields of pleasure should prove that they are highly qualified for entrance into the academic shades. The term of college bred must not be allowed to fall into disrepute even at the cost of closing our doors to several men who wish to be Harvard students without working to gain that distinction...
...championship games, a book has been placed in the store of Leavitt and Peirce, and should forty men sign before Saturday P. M., the placards will be printed with the scores attached. The price will be 50 cents for a set of ten; the price simply covering the cost of printing...
...society at one time "hired the old court house of the selectmen" for their meetings, and voted to "ask the faculty to pay, as usual, half the cost of heating and lighting the same." At a later time the faculty, at the joint request of the Institute of 1770 and the Harvard Union, repaired University 3 for their...