Word: pay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trouble is, that a senior who has had to pay a bonus for his rooms cannot help seeing an injustice in his being obliged to hand over his room without any return for the money expended on it and in the purchase of it. When a man pays a bonus of twenty-five dollars, and puts thirty-five dollars' worth of wall-paper on a room whose rent is less than fifty, he feels that he should get some return for the money expended. The idea of stopping transfers is a ridiculous one. How would he provide...
...antiquated gas-bags and dyspeptic hierophants. And many is the versified heart-throb she is obliged to listen to in her capacity of mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia and her friends and pay less attention to the "flow of soul" than to the material formations in corsets and crinoline. And many is the moody tit-bit dedicated to this young lady who fully appreciates the satisfactory character of a husband who has "struck oil" and reviews such contributions as the following with discreet reserve...
Alexander Dumas is said to be a great picture buyer. Dealers sell to him very cheaply so that they can advertise him as one of their customers; and, after getting possession of a picture, he generally sells it soon for a large advance, people being willing to pay heavy prices for a picture "owned by Dumas." Mr. Ruskin's position, they say, is precisely the opposite. As soon as he has pronounced a picture good enough for himself to buy, its price becomes enhanced so much, immediately, that he is generally prevented from buying...
...rumored that the corporation have thought seriously of cutting down our Greek department, too. This department should be one of the last to be cut down. The fact is, that the corporation have been appointing a number of new professors when it seems that they could not pay for the ones we had already. There is a manifest injustice in the way instructors are apportioned to the different departments...
...departments comes the department of mathematics, in which there were about one hundred men to two professors, one assistant professor (who is now a professor) and two tutors. This is manifestly unfair to the other departments. In this department, the men who take the courses do not begin to pay the salary of the instructors. It seems as if the men are leaving the departments where they are most needed. Our Greek department has long been the pride of our university, and it is closely followed in popularity by the department in philosophy, which has, of course, less men this...