Word: incurability
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...satisfactory grounds for his impeachment of the figures given in the Monthly. It seems evident that not $650 but $500 should be taken as the minimum of expenses. The figures given by Mr. Leighton are too large, because they include some expenses which a really economical man would never incur, while the estimates of others are inconsistently large. For similar reasons, the totals in the medium grades are not low enough. It is rather surprising to find the term "modest" attached to a grade in which the estimated expense is $1,225. It appears to us that for the vast...
...hundred dollars a year will go a long way toward paying a man's college expenses, and many poor young men who may not have thought of a college education as a possible thing for them will be ready to take the responsibility of paying what expenses they incur above the two hundred dollars...
...have masked under an assumption of honor an indefensible form of laziness. It was urged when the first prayer petition was presented to the Overseers, that the cause of the petition was a repugnance on the part of the students to arise fifteen minutes earlier each day and to incur the physical trouble of walking to and from chapel. To those who signed the petition in honest conviction of right, and to all who hold to their honor as gentlemen, such an imputation is as unwarranted as it can be proved to be untrue. It is now in the power...
...urges, but take exceptions to his sweeping method of dealing with the evils. Let us see. What do we have proposed? The abolition of the secret, societies "whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness," a decrease in the monetary support of all athletic teams as well as the secondary expenses incurred by a personal support; and finally the discontinuance of all inter-collegiate contests. Now little knowledge of Harvard or of any great university is needed to show the utter impossibility of accomplishing such fundamental reforms without the strictest regulations upon the part of the faculty, seconded by the most determined...
...That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows who shall, after this act, impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's subjects by virtue of scents, cosmetics, washes paints, artificial teeth, false hair or high heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors." - Princetonian...