Word: lives
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university located in New York is because New York has a greater number and variety of public institutions, such as hospitals, museums and collections of all sorts, which must serve as aids to a university, than any other place in the country, and that as to the cost of living, the larger a city the easier it is for anybody to live as he pleases unobserved, and the greater the constituency which the university will find on the spot...
...author devotes an entire chapter to Boston, including an amusing account of his trip to Harvard. When he says that the architectural beauty of the buildings did not impress him very forcibly we can readily agree with him, but when he remarks that the students are all obliged to live in the college buildings and are not compelled to attend prayers, we can but wish, in the latter case at least, that his information was correct...
...writer in the Portland Transcript, commenting on the subject of elective studies in colleges, which as he declares is "one of the live issues of the day," says: "When the student is allowed to select his studies, some care should be taken to prevent him from choosing studies that he is incapable of pursuing successfully, and he should further be required to arrange the work of his whole course in such a way that the successive years should bear some logical relation to one another. The first of these precautions is taken to some extent at Harvard, but the second...
Most of the societies live and board together; the older ones own houses, and none but the most insignificant are without some sort of a habitation. These houses supply many conveniences which students usually are compelled to do without. Moreover they lessen the expense of living to their inhabitants, especially where the chapter owns the house...
Expenses here are less than half what they are at Harvard. One cannot spend much over a thousand in legitimate expenses if he live even extravagantly. Four hundred dollars will allow a man to live here in the same style that a thousand does at Harvard...