Word: low
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year, $1800. The least total expenditure of any one member was $875: for one year, $150. The average price paid for board was $4 a week. The average highest price paid was $5.25; average lowest, $3.75. One man boarded himself at $1, one at $2, several as low as $4. The highest price paid was $7. As a rule the young men who expended the most money in college have the least to show in literary and scientific attainments...
...recommended for such a degree. I don't see how the new regulations can be regarded as an improvement on the old ones, when such a rule exists. In the old regulations, a man had simply to make a certain average; in the new, if he has received one low mark, no matter what his average may be, his cum laude is lost. Imagine a man losing a cum laude by a low mark in freshman chemistry or Physics...
...great forum, originally a low swampy ground, was gradually transformed to the magnificent parallogram which its name now calls to our minds. Professor Lanciani gave a very vivid picture of the appearance of the forum as it must have been in antiquity. The best preserved forum in Rome is entirely inaccessible because there are two convents on the site. The forum of Trajan was by all means the most impressive and magnificent...
...Society announces a stock of the Finest Neckwear, well assorted and at low prices. Also a line of reliable Hosiery and Handkerchiefs...
...Piper makes a long rush of thirty-five yards, and Perry gains fifteen yards but Yale gets the ball at length about the middle of the field. Wurtemburg gets through the rush-line but is stopped by Perry who throws him with a vicious snap. Morrison kicks a beautiful low kick which Sears only gets twenty yards from our line. In a few moments Yale gets the ball again, and just how it is done no one seems to know, but there is a very pretty rush of twenty-five yards made and Yale has a touch-down...