Word: costly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spared without inconvenience, are all that are asked for. The Government benefits; we assist ourselves as well. Although the stamps are to be redeemed finally in 1923, this may be done with interest at any time. By saving nickels and dimes now, one may buy stamps later which cost $4.12, and which in five years will be worth five dollars. Likewise, a full certificate will rise in value from $82.40 to $100. To encourage personal thrift, to build up its financial strength, the Government offers this opportunity for investment. Let no one neglect...
...there are rewards. The bankrupt student may not go to recitations or to the Stadium (thus exempting him from drill) and so days of long sleep and no work are within his grasp. In spite of these visions of a paradise at Cambridge we advise paying up at any cost for the arm of the Dean is long and the days of rest would precede months of hard labor. Our watch-ery today must be: On, on to Dane Hall...
...this war will bring to them just as it has to their sister institutions on the Isis and the Cam. They should look ahead, for this is the time when foresight counts with both men and nations. Let us have less attention to what the war has already cost our colleges and give more to what they can do, to meet the new problems which the war is bound to bring into their own halls. --Boston Herald...
...will create the only endowment here for the care of the grounds. During the past few years, under the direction of Professor R. T. Fisher '98, much has been done to restore the shade trees in the Yard and with shrubs and vines to beautify the college surroundings. The cost of this was met by gifts from individuals and graduate classes. Mrs. Blake's permanent fund will make it possible to continue this work and to supply the University buildings with an attractive setting...
...than Germany does for 14. Abroad we have one man in charge of each Y. M. C. A. hut, aided by several volunteer workers, while here we have five men in charge of each one. This winter the heating of our Y. M. C. A. huts alone will cost $700,000, but they will furnish the only warm spot for the men in the trenches, the only dry, lighted spot where the soldier can read or write, and where everyone is welcome. Above all the Y. M. C. A. is the greatest single influence for safe-guarding the morals...