Word: owned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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His expenses for a single year amounted to $ 184.68. The items in the account current were these : Clothing, $ 19.25 ; literature, $ 21.30 ; postage, $ 3.66; books (text and reference), $ 40.36 ; board, $ 34.06; rent and furniture, $ 37.10 ; car-fare, $ 14.50; washing, $1.59; miscellaneous, $9.56. The year's board bill, it seems, was only...
WE have heard of some men who, by the present arrangement, are unfortunate enough to have three examinations in two consecutive days, and of one who has five in three days. We fully appreciate the fact that it is not easy to make out the schedule, and that no arrangement...
"Ah! but those you know are exceptional cases," said the Senior. "X. is one of those quiet fellows who never does anything but study. He positively seems to like it; and it is all very well for him, because his father is rich enough to let him study as long...
"Then, Mr. H., you are confessedly arguing from your own case. You don't deny that all time given to the development of your intellect is profitably spent?"
"Perhaps you are right, after all," said he; "I agree with what you say, in theory at least, though I doubt if it will hold in practice. But then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard...