Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...England to abandon religious observances." Again many of the real reasons why the students desire the abolition of the attendance are unworthy of attention. Some students do not care to have their morning slumbers interrupted, others wish to be able to reduce their attendance at Cambridge to a minimum. It is advanced in support of retaining the prayers, that they are the only provision in the college for express religious instruction, and the only mode in which it can be obtained, except in the classes of the Divinity School. Moreover, the service is held in "a well warmed chapel...
...should consider the following the necessary expenses of one of the upper class crews: For services at the boat house, and for entrance fee at the class races, $125; new oars, $75; training table from three to four weeks, $150. This would make $350 the minimum amount necessary for a class crew, which has a barge and a good shell. It generally happens, however, that two shells are needed by a crew during four years. This has been the case with all classes from '83 to '86. The price of a shell...
...exception of boxing, were combined in the Pentathlon, which took place every year in the gymnasium. The winner was he who won the wrestling, which came last, and had gone successfully through the other events. In these games, leaping was always the first event. In this event a minimum leap was set, and all those failing to cover this distance lost their chance to compete in the other events, which reduced the great number of contestants. The Greeks never leaped without weights, and used two sorts, first the dumbbell, which had a curved bar between the round ends...
...causes, and class dinners are among the few things left that can momentarily rekindle the smoldering embers of the old-time enthusiasm. We shall be greatly surprised if there is any difficulty in securing fifty names from among the members of the junior class, the number set as a minimum for the proposed banquet...
...Columbia; at Brown, Bowdoin, Princeton and Williams, it is $75; at Amherst $100, at Yale $140, and at Harvard $150. By adding to these main items of expense, other necessary items, such as clothing, fuel, washing, books, etc., we can arrive at what may be called the minimum expense at the various colleges. Statistics have been carefully prepared at this point, and the following may be said to be the very least annual expenditure which will carry a student through the several colleges. Harvard, $475; Yale, $425; Amherst, Williams, and other colleges of the same stamp, about...