Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benevolence of those who have preceded us here. The great sums interested to us for distribution in prizes, loan funds and scholarships make it possible for our students to offset the cost of their education to such a degree that the not output of a poor boy is probably less than in most New England colleges. At any rate, I have asked a large number of poor students why they came to expensive Harvard, and again and again I have received the reply, I could not afford to go elsewhere...
...annual expenses in Cambridge will be less than $550, not including a small spread which I will give Class Day. While I have not spent money needlessly, I have not pinched myself at all and have been fortunate in obtaining low-priced rooms. It is in this respect alone that Harvard is necessarily more expensive than many other American colleges...
...three years has a weightier claim to getting into a college building than the man who just comes here. It would be a very simple matter to arrange a plan by which preference would be given to seniority in college standing, so that the bursar's hat would become less like the well into which like the daughters of Danae, a man pours his lot as freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors without ever seeing the accomplishment of his wish...
...calls for a good deal of money. We have it is true, Memorial Hall, which lessens our expense for food, but it costs $150 a year to board here. Our tuition bill each year is $150. The University owns 450 rooms, but not one-third of them rent for less than $150 a year, the average rent being $146. There large charges for tuition and room rent are made necessary by the smallness of the general fund, which pays the running expenses of the college. Very few professorships are endowed, and so the tattion fee and room rent must...
...intend to win anything this year. Especially should the freshmen cultivate such interest, because of their recent standing. Class feeling for them has hardly had time crystallize into enthusiasm, and because of the newness of their surroundings they are apt to give their attention to matters of less real importance to themselves, their class and their college, than athletics...