Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cost of construction of the rink is estimated at $60,000. J. Frederick Larson, college architect, describes the building as a simple structure with main points, balancing the Davis Field House on the opposite wing of the gymnasium. Viewed from the exterior, the rink will appear low, with two prominent main entrances, one facing Park Street at the east end and the other at the west near the gymnasium. There will be four exits in addition to the entrances. The rink will be 220 feet long, with a roof span 116 feet wide and 33 feet above...
Here I first came upon that directness which some people called brutality but which was merely the courageous kindness of sincerity. Direct speech, at any cost, was an article of his faith. He was as ready to receive it as to give it. At a meeting of graduate students, while I was talking with the professor who had made the address of the evening, President Eliot came up to disagree with him face to face. The attack, though not personally hostile, was energetic. 'I said to myself', he declared, 'the trumpet gives an uncertain sound.' The lecturer, in the nervous...
...times, especially in his earlier years, his directness of speech caused needless irritation and may well have cost him friends. A rich gentleman whose estate bordered the property of the College complained to him of a high pile of wood or lumber close to the line that divided the estates. 'I told him,' said the President, many years later, 'that if he objected to the College's woodpile, the College' would gladly buy his land. That,' the President added, 'was a bad break...
...addition to the gifts which provide a considerable sum of money, the Corporation has provided sufficient funds to cover the cost of duplicate copies...
...trivial often seem tragic. The story concerns one Lillian who preferred the sobriquet "kept woman" to the meaningless "wife." Her preference undoubtedly stemmed from the fact that her Keeper Hubert had a frigid, wealthy spouse who typified none of the connubial felicities. But Hubert feared that a divorce would cost him the lovely suburban retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances, as well as the joys of the liaison. Finally he was reduced...