Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wages have not been raised in any appreciable amount since 1860, while the cost of living has greatly increased. The reports of the Iron and Steel Association corroborate this. And yet we are told that the laborer in America is infinitely better off than in Europe. To be sure money wages are higher, but it is not the amount of money, but the purchasing power of that money that is of interest to the laborer. The reason that the condition of the European laborer is worse than that of the American, is because his standard of living is so much...
...think that the base-ball management makes a great mistake in setting so high a price upon its season tickets. On examination of the present schedule of games, we find that a season ticket costs no less, or at least very little less than single fees paid at each game would cost; so that all the advantage of season tickets is lost. Rare is the man who cares to lay out $5.00 at one time for a season ticket, when even supposing he attends all the games, he knows it will cost him no more to pay for each game...
...direction. at least, the authorities are on the lookout for the welfare of the students under their charge,- and in a direction which, we venture to assert, no one has ever suspected. It is the custom of the college to encourage interior decoration by paying the cost of the paper-hanging whenever a student re-papers his room. With this custom in mind a student recently engaged workmen to refit his room. After the work of re-papering was completed, he called upon the proper officer of the college to receive the customary allowance. This functionary expressed a wish...
...referring to your first article, I called it "inaccurate;" while, by your own admission, that adjective was not wholly inappropriate, I think, on the whole, I might better have used the word "misleading." When I used the word, I was thinking, not of the trivial blunder as to the cost of the "blazers," but to the rather broad and harsh clause in which it is said that the provision of such "luxuries" as "blazers," etc., "indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely." It may be true that such...
...news columns this morning, appears still another letter about the crew. We are glad to learn from Mr. Sexton that the cost of the crew last year was not as large as we supposed. We present a scaled statement of expenses. The different figures published by us on Tuesday, were partly due to the haste with which we looked over tho treasurer's report, and partly to the blind manner in which that report was published. But although the $1770 of old debts paid last year were not part of the actual running expenses for 1883 84, they, nevertheless, were...