Word: pound15
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expensive university in Europe, room rent is not nearly so high; the highest priced rooms in Christ Church College, the costliest of all, being but pound18 18s., about $95; at Balliol the total average cost of furnished rooms is about pound20-$100; at Magdalene the highest priced rooms are pound15, or $75, and so on through the twenty and more colleges and halls. In short, the room rent for students at Harvard is two or three times as great as at Oxford. At Oxford all lodging houses in which students are permitted to reside are licensed, and the rents...
...have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum, and the other holds a judicial appointment; and yet neither, according to the sapient decision of an examination, could be trusted to conduct a case...
...that the dues payable by members during their first four years of life there be increased. The cause of this is certain unremunerative expenditures that have been made, the benefit of which accrues almost wholly to undergraduates. Among these are the Taylorian Galleries; the parks (pound38,800); the museum (pound15,000, all of which, except the cost of the site, has been paid out of income); an observatory (pound7,500); a new chemical laboratory (pound7,500); the restoration of the Bodleian edifice (pound20,000); the new schools site (pound38,000), and the new schools building (pound103,000), or a total...
...cost of the British army in 1882 will be Pound15...
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