Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five dollar subscription tickets to the football games have been placed on sale at Brock and Leavitt's and can be had at the gate today...
Round trip tickets to Providence to see the Brown game today can be bought at Bartlett's until one today. Price, one dollar, not including admission to the game...
...Alumni and invited guests will assemble in Massachusetts Hall, at 2 P. M., and march in procession to Memorial Hall. Tickets for the dinner will be for sale at Massachusetts Hall from 10 till 2 o'clock. Price, one dollar. Graduates of 1832 and of earlier classes are entitled to tickets without payment...
...will probably be objected, as usual, that these things cost too much, and that we can't expect to get a four dollar a day board for $4.50 a week. But what we want more that anything else is a change, and this can easily be afforded us without any undue expenditure. It is really remarkable the way in which Memorial seems to be bound to a certain bill of fare that inevitably swings around into the same old notch with each recurring week. The steward and his cooks do not seem to realize the unlimited capacities of their situations...
...Progress relates a doleful experience of his as a college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed to Vansant...