Word: costs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...started about the grandstands on Jarvis. At the beginning of the year it was expected that the field would be devoted to football until dormitories were built upon it, and permanent grandstands were therefore erected. Probably, however, no loss has been incurred through this. The difference in the cost of temporary and permanent grandstands is not large. It is estimated that a temporary grandstand for the Pennsylvania game, in the place of the permanent one, would have cost three thousand dollars, and forty-two hundred were all that were paid for the one we now have. The difference...
...regard to the disposition of the grandstands, we are heartily in favor of having them moved to Holmes rather than to Soldiers Field. The cost of removal would be less, and both fields need grandstands. Those on Holmes are old, rickety, much repaired, and must soon be torn down. The stands at present on Jarvis would make an excellent substitute and would probably last as long as the field can be devoted to athletics. With Soldiers Field, the conditions are different. There grandstands of the first order ought to be erected. We think that much better ones even than those...
President Low has presented to Columbia College a set of eighteen volumes of photographs and plans of German universities. Each volume is about four feet square and is said to have cost $5,000. The German government exhibited the books at the Word's Fair...
...building will cost about $150,000, and it is expected that it will be completed in about a year...
...believe can be accomplished by it in the way of establishing a sympathetic understanding between the different sorts of men in the class. Of course the dinner will have no such influence unless a very large proportion of the members participate. The occasion is sure to be entertaining, the cost is small, and there is no reason why nearly every man in the class should not attend. Support will, unquestionably, make the dinner a success, and, particularly, prompt support. Let no man postpone signing the blue-book at Leavitt's; if only a large number of men sign at once...