Word: costs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cedar shell has been ordered for the '97 crew. It will be built by Davy, and will cost about...
...Moore, the graduate manager of athletics, is planning to make some changes at the boat houses before spring. Estimates have been made and the proposed improvements will cost about $500. It is proposed to fit up the smaller building to the west for the use of the 'varsity crew and to have the other building for the class crews. New and larger bath rooms will be put into the buildings. A definite decision will be arrived at after Mr. Moore and Mr. Watson have visited the boat houses to discuss the contemplated changes...
...best interests of the employers to recognize these associations? It most certainly is. For laborers feel that they have been denied a right; feeling this, they are made hostile to capitalists; social disturbances, such as strikes and lock-outs are increased, and these are very costly to capitalists. The Chicago strike cost the laborers a million and a half of dollars, but it cost the managers four millions and a half. This fact has been recognized and it is generally the policy of managers in this country to recognize this. They have learned the lesson,- recognition and there is harmony...
Professor Charles E. Thwing has an article in the current number of the Forum on the cost of collegiate education. He shows the increase of expenses at Harvard. From 1825-30 the average annual expenses were $176.00, of which half went for tuition and half for board and room; from 1831-40 the average was $188.10; from 1840-48, $194.00; 1849-60, $227~($138.00 went for board and room); in the sixties it jumped from $263.00 to $437.00, two-thirds of which went for board and room; in 1881-82 the average expense to an economical student ranged from...
...cost of administration of the college has increased rapidly. At the period of the American Revolution the average salary of a professor was $1000. Early in the century it was increased to $1500, and remained so until 1838-39. Then it was increased to $1800. In 1854 it was raised to $2000 and in 1866 it was $3200. In 1869 it became $4000. At present the maximum salary paid...