Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...News, and the Princetonian print in the order named more matter in the course of the year than any other college paper. It is to be noticed, however, that while the Yale News and the Harvard Crimson surpass us in the total number of feet for the year, we exceed both of them in the average number of feet per issue. The Crimson averages 5 1-2 feet; the News 6 1-2, and the Princetonian 9 1-2 feet...
...Yale and the other to Amherst, and found the latter's bills the larger. Of course no generalization could be ventured upon one such individual case, but we suspect that a careful comparison would show that, however much the average expenditures of a class in the larger college may exceed the average in the smaller, the sum required by a self-respecting young man is not a great deal more in the one case than in the other...
...money, will read with deep satisfaction the announcement that the Charles River horse cars may now be ridden upon for four cents. The outlook is now promising indeed. May we not expect that the railroad war thus inaugurated will rage with ever increasing fierceness until its results shall far exceed anything yet known in the history of Cambridge travelling? What can be more obvious than that the Cambridge road will promptly reduce its fares to three cents, and that the rival lines will continue to "see each other and go one lower" until both roads begin to offer premiums...
...River Line on Thursday; the train leaves the Old Colony Sation at 6 P. M. The fare from Boston to Princeton is $4.51; the hotel at Princeton has reduced its rates to $2.50 per day. It can be safely estimated that the whole expense of the trip will not exceed $20. A book has been placed at Leavitt and Peirce's for those who wish to accompany the nine on this trip...
...some particulars the expenditures will undoubtedly exceed our estimates, but in others we hope to effect a further reduction...