Word: costs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...benefit of the University and the undergraduates. The query is, whether some new intellectual leadership, of a supreme nature, might be of service to the undergraduates? All the branches of the subject are with reference to such service. Writers for the prizes are invited to consider whether the present cost of education might well be lowered, whether inexpensive education would widen the usefulness of Harvard, and whether the introduction of a larger number of intellectual students, of the old fashioned kind, would help to the end in view? It is understood that one of Harvard's larger leaders gave...
Were there no profit derived from the tennis courts, such conditions would cause no comment. Bad as they are, they would be the best possible under the circumstances and we should be satisfied. But, with an annual surplus of $1200 over and above the present cost of maintenance, it is only natural that the men from whose pockets this sum comes, should be more or less interested to know whither it goes. Approximately one-fifth of the profit was spent on the tennis team. Dinners to victorious Freshman teams and the liberal use of taxicabs may possibly be justifiable...
...statement in your columns giving the statistical cost of courses of instruction states that "no definite plan for using these figures has yet been evolved, but it is likely that their value to the Administrative Board will be great." Assuming that Board to be governed by a sense of logic, their value lies clearly enough in the only conclusion those figures as presented can lead to, -- which is this: that the ideal course must be one given by an instructor at $ 1000 to 1000 students,--giving a figure of instruction of $11. Then all will be on a basis that...
...raised accordingly. Such a public opinion as would be raised against cheating in examinations by the introduction of the honor system would, we believe, extend at the same time to the matter of theses: It would not be a negative feeling against dishonesty, but a righteous indignation which would cost an offender his social position if not his place as a member of the University...
...Phillips Brooks House Class Day spread will be held on the quadrangle between Holden Chapel and Phillips Brooks House this year as usual. The tickets will be 90 cents each. A small extra charge will be made for each invitation to cover the cost of printing. These invitations will be ready for distribution about May 15. In order to facilitate the work of the committee in charge, men who expect to attend the spread are requested to notify J. R. Sibley '12 at Phillips Brooks House as soon as possible, stating the number of invitations they are likely...