Word: costs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...half million dollars for the erection of two new buildings of Columbia College on Riverside heights. The gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and his three brothers is in memory of their father, William H. Vanderbilt, who built the present Vanderbilt clinic. Cornelius Vanderbilt and his brothers will also defray the cost of equipping both buildings thoroughly. Mr. and Mrs. Sloane will completely equip the new addition to the Maternity Hospital and Mrs. Sloane has guaranteed during her lifetime to meet all expenses exceeding the present endowment. Work on the new buildings will be commenced as soon as the weather will permit...
...regular price. Now Alumni may procure copies free from the office, but undergraduates are obliged to buy them at the book shops. We believe the University is working against its own interest here. Its catalogue is one of its best advertisements, and one that, at a small cost, might be made to reach and influence many more who do not know of the opportunities offered by Harvard...
There is a defect in one of the new college dormitories, namely, Perkins Hall, which it would necessitate some expense to rectify but which seems to me important enough to call for the comparatively small attendant cost. I refer to the arrangement of the sinks and toilet rooms. As matters now stand the only sinks are in the same rooms with the closets and separated by nothing more than a six foot partition; consequently during about half of everyday both students and goodies must use different sections of the same apartment, one for toilet or bathing purposes, the other...
...been dulled by the suffocating air of a close room or racked with fears of pneumonia and bronchitis, it is impossible to keep down a feeling of mingled indignation and despair. We know that it is no easy matter for the University authorities to remedy the evil; that improvements cost money; that the University is cramped for funds which may be applied to such purposes; and finally, that the best of ventilating appliances is apt to prove unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, on the principle that the one who never murmers when he is dissatisfied is not likely to have his condition bettered...
played good football and held the lead well into the second half. The offensive work of the team was good and they played together well. For defensive work, though improvement was shown, the eleven was still weak. Failure to kick goals from the touchdowns cost the freshmen the game. Ninety-eight lined up as follows...