Word: live
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge lodging-house keepers. There is a great need, too, of cheap rooms, for the tendency has been to increase the expenses of Harvard by erecting high priced dormitories, the prices of rooms in which are in most instances beyond the means of those men who strive to live within the "economical" estimate of $592,00 per year (catalogue, P. 124, with which compare P. 129). The number of rooms the price of rent of which is within $75 per annum is indeed alarmingly small, and any addition will be hailed with satisfaction...
Quite too live for the foreigners' tone...
...German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality of university teaching. Unfortunately, this illustration overlooks the fact that professors, like other people, are influenced largely by their environment. They are not monks or soldiers and do not form communities apart, living in monasteries or barracks. They are part of the society which they serve, and share in its tastes, habits and standards. The German professor cares little about money, because plain living is the rule not simply of his own class but of the official and professional class - that...
Many students reside in their colleges, while some have apartments in town, and the regulations for those who reside in their colleges are not very different from those (and they are few and simple enough) which govern Harvard men who live in the college dormitories. With us, those who are responsible for the good order of their buildings are denominated proctors, but in the English universities the proctor is a very different and much grander person. Those whose duty it is in the separate colleges of Oxford to keep order and conduct the examinations are the tutors, most of whom...
...professors receive high salaries, and lecture regularly or irregularly, as the case may be. Some live at Oxford, some come there only at intervals to deliver a lecture or two, and then go away. Some are appointed for life, some for a longer or shorter period, as it happens. The professor of poetry, now J. C. Sharp, M. A., of Balliol, is appointed every ten years. This professorship has been held among others by Keble and Matthew Arnold. The professorship of fine arts, now vacant, was filled a short time ago by Mr. Ruskin. To the university lectures...