Word: incur
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...twelve. I believe there are more than thirty boarders at Memorial beyond the seating capacity; and, although we are told that this number helps to reduce the cost of living, there are few of us who would not prefer to pay the few cents' difference per week, to incur the actual discomfort. The association must remember that, two or three years ago, a general exodus took place from Memorial when an attempt was made to impose inferior food upon the members; and it is possible that the present falsely economical policy may meet with similar failure. It is uncomfortable...
Students desiring to engage new rooms will have to live in a hotel at least a month before the allotment, and remove all articles from their former room. Violation of this will incur immediate and final close of connection with the University...
...college bills, cannot ask for this privilege. And yet A. B., it may be, has a rich uncle, who, as is tacitly understood, will see that he wants nothing, and will give him a salaried place in his counting-room the moment he graduates; while C. D. must incur the cost of studying a profession, and will have a mother and sisters dependent upon him for support. It is needless to multiply illustrations to show that restricted scholarships may give no encouragement to students who have most to contend with, and who most need their stimulus...
...above named scholarship, the benefaction awarded me." Such conditions, if it were thought best to insist upon them, would reduce to a minimum the disadvantages of a course of procedure of which the general results would be gratifying. Men of competent means would not be likely to incur the disgrace of failing to carry out an intention they deliberately recorded...
...perfectly "cold thing," has been brought suddenly to a sense of its duties and dangers, by the announcement that 50 per cent on the year's work will be required for admission to the Senior class, and that two hundred censure-marks, instead of three hundred, will incur special probation. This is sad news to the sybarite, but it seems only fair that those who enjoy the same privileges as Seniors should be called upon for an equal amount of hard work. The action of the Faculty is simply another step taken in raising the standard of the bachelor...