Word: costing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First, the cost of one camp for five thousand men would be, approximately, not more than two-thirds that of five for a thousand each. Any saving in this way is, of course, to be encouraged...
Second, those college corps which have not a sufficient enlistment to warrant a camp would receive the advantages for their men at a cost proportional to the quota...
...sure, this undertaking would entail considerable expansion of the College Employment Bureau or the creation of a new organization. But the labor or two thousand men for four months is net an insignificant item in the present crisis. Its effective distribution is worth all the effort it would cost...
...Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories for a number of days...
...reason for the action is that 30 men was not a sufficient number to justify the maintenance of an expensive engineering camp. The high cost of supplies, the difficulty in obtaining the labor necessary to keep the grounds in condition, and the obstacles in the way of engaging the services of an adequate body of instructors, would make the continuance of this branch for a limited number impracticable. The camp was originally designed to accommodate a large number of men and contains quarters, classrooms and drafting rooms sufficient for the use of 150 students. Because of war conditions...