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...dormitories ranges from $300 downward. At Oxford, the most 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...
...abuses in the university. In 1691 a Mr. Hulme founded four exhibitions, which were to be confined to members of Brasenose. The property, being situated in Manchester, has enormously increased in value, and latterly there have been seventeen exhibitions, each of the annual value of pound135 in cash and pound20 in books. They were held for four years, and any member of the college who had resided three years was eligible. There was no pretence of any examination, and the authorities of the college had nothing to do with the elections, which were vested absolutely in the dean of Manchester...
...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 of pound208,000, of which more than one-half was unremunerative expenditure. So far from there being no means of reducing expenditures, there is rather an obligation to increase them, and all this...
...Pennsylvania, who has written proposing immediately to place his son, now preparing for Harvard, in the school at Athens. The project has aroused much interest in the English press, who watch all proceedings with a jealous eye. The Academy has even flattered the school by a report that already pound20,000 are in its hands, which it proposes to spend outright for buildings and a library. If the school does not receive its full complement of members from the associated colleges, others, who are competent and who are willing to pay their own expenses, will be received...
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