Word: costs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present the proper time. (1) Several years required for the building and equipment of a modern war vessel. (2) Cost of building very low at present...
...tennis association wants this all done before the interscholastic tournament, on May twelfth, and the courts can be built quicker as proposed. But while interscholastic athletics deserve encouragement, are they to be encouraged at the expense of our own students? If it should be urged that it would cost less to build them all together there is little doubt that the extra expense need not fall on the tennis association. That the ground at the western end of the field is just as suitable as anywhere else need not be doubted in view of the fact that the championship matches...
...quality and price as could a dining-hall run upon Memorial Hall principles. An element of profit would necessarity enter which must make the quality of the food lower or its price higher. It seems to us that one of the prime needs of Harvard is to make the cost of a sufficiently high standard of living among the students as small as possible; and the fact that control by private enterprise makes against this is not hastily to be passed over...
...been made possible by the management of the Latin Play for students to see the performance at small cost. The play has been received with unfeigned enthusiasm not simply by men and women interested in classical learning, but by those interested in any form of culture; and yet it is not at all improbable that hundreds of students within the University regard the play with apathy. To them we speak. The play will make one of the most noteworthy events that, from the scholarly point of view, has ever been seen at Harvard. The undertaking is unprecedented; and the preparation...
...difficulty, which a single waiter would have in serving eighteen men, as a practical objection to any increase, temporary or permanent, in the number of men at club tables. We do not think this is insurmountable. To be sure, two waiters at a table would largely increase the cost of board. On the other hand, it would be possible to add a small number of waiters for service at the club tables whose sole duty should be to keep the tables cleared of dishes that had been used; and, further, to have an increased number of waiters behind the screens...