Word: costs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...points out as the present needs of the society, buildings for the growing library, the laboratories, and the gymnasium, and grounds for various forms of healthful exercises; but the most pressing need is small buildings in which the students may be given homes of comfort and refinement at low cost. As the secretary suggests, the erection and equipment of one would be a charming form of charity for some person of means...
Through the gift of Hiram Sibley, Jr., Cornell is the recipient of a new building for the Engineering department. When completed it will cost $50,000. It is made of gray sandstone, of the same style of architecture as the old Sibley building. A large part of the building will be devoted to the school of Marine Engineering. The top floor will be entirely given up to draughting, the latest improvements in desks and lighting arrangements being made a feature. On the main floor will be located the Museum, where will also be lecture and recitation rooms. It is expected...
...dormitory which is being erected for the University of Pennsylvania, will cost $125,000 when completed, and will be the largest dormitory in the United States...
...offered $60,000 for completing the Ryerson Physical Laboratory, for which he had previously given $150,000. He has also given $15,000 for the equipment of the department of Physics. Mr. Sidney A. Kent has announced his intention of fully equipping Kent Hall, which when completed will cost more than $225,000, and Mr. Yerkes has presented the university with what will be the largest telescope in the world...
...clearly shown by the small number of entries for the winter meetings and by the small attendance that interest in them was for that year at least at a very low ebb. Doubtless these meetings have been one of the causes of the present deficit in the treasury. They cost money and bring a very inadequate return. Moreover, we remember at least one outdoor meeting last year when there were practically no spectators at all. The cause of the trouble, however, is rather in the greatness of the expenses than in the smallness of the receipts. In the first place...