Word: palmers
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...article on college expenses, which is intended to correct some prevailing misconceptions about Harvard, appeared in the last number of the Monthly. If is somewhat in the vein of the recent speech of Professor Palmer on the same subject, and it would be interesting to make some comparison between the two. The writer starts by commenting upon the erroneous idea of the public that Harward is extravagant, and after stating that Professor Palmer's estimates are not correct, and that the catalogue is absolutely misleading, presents a new table. The reader, prepared for figures lower than ever, suddenly finds himself...
...since fuel is not given as a separate item, it is probably included here in all classes. $25 deducted from the estimate for clothing would leave sufficient for a careful man; and the allowance for sundries should be cut $50 fully in order to approach Professor Palmer's estimates. Since every considerable item of expense is given separately, the allowances for sundries in all grades seem disproportionately large. The tables in two of the letters in the appendix to Professor Palmer's published speech, as well as the estimates in the catalogue, confirm this view. Travelling expenses are placed...
...number of men computed to come under the various grades is not given definitely, but, so far as it is given, shows a wide variation from Professor Palmer's figures. The author of "College Expenses" states that of the two lowest grades together-men spending less than $810-there are about thirty men from each class; whereas Prof. Palmer, in answer to the question "What is a competent allowance for a man coming to Harvard?" says: "If he will live closely, carefully, yet with full regard to all that is required, he may do so, with nearly half his class...
Professor Palmer will conclude his readings from the Odyssey with Book XVIII, which he will read on Wednesday, April...
READINGS FROM THE ODYSSEY.Professor Palmer will conclude his readings from the Odyssey with Book XVIII, which he will read on Wednesday, April...