Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...experiment in daily journalism has been made at Yale. The Yale News is a sheet of four pages, which measures nine inches by six, and one of which is given to advertisements. "Our price (5 cents) is somewhat exorbitant," say the editors, who modestly keep their names in the background, "but it will be lowered as soon as we are assured of our financial support." In justification of their "innovation" they urge "the dulness of the times and the demand for news," which latter commodity they apparently propose to manufacture, inasmuch as the Record and Courant are supposed to publish...
...RICHARDSON has informed the Directors of Memorial Hall that if the students buy their papers of the small boys who from time to time hang around the door of the Hall, it will not pay him regularly to keep papers in the Auditor's room. Students will readily see the force of this reasoning, and those who are desirous of being sure that papers shall be supplied them will give all their custom to the boy in the Auditor's room...
...better commentary on the atmosphere of our dormitories is needed than the reply of the Senior, who, on being asked why he did not put on his overcoat these awful cold days, replied, "O, I keep that to wear in my room...
...with these young men than is absolutely necessary. We don't know anything about them before they come here; and we hesitate to introduce strangers into our families: we never see them after they go away; and we want our daughters to form friendships which they can keep if desirable, all their lives. And then the students are generally rather dissipated...
...result in a debt of $1,000 that would have to be made up by an increased rate of board during the succeeding months. It might also result in a more serious loss, namely, in that of the cooks, who are too good to be rashly parted with. To keep the Hall open, and to charge all expenses on those who boarded in it during the recess would be putting too heavy a burden upon those who remained. The weekly pay-roll is about $1,600, and at least three hundred members are required to meet running expenses...