Word: renting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Student club room or rooms to let. Location and other things very desirable; everything private; rent cheap. Apply immediately to Lee L. Powers, 420 Harvard...
...rent of rooms in college buildings is lower than outside rent. But until the college can lodge a larger portion of the students than at present, it will be impossible to force down the rents in Cambridge...
...country to raise funds for the building. It is estimated that the building will cost about $20,000, of which amount only $4,000 has been subscribed up to date. The house at present occupied by the school at Athens is not adequate for its purposes, although an exhorbitant rent is paid. Besides this expense of over $1,000, the several colleges are obliged to support the directors of the institution. The plan now is to raise a fund sufficiently large to support a permanent directorship at the school...
After time had been called for the second half, hardly ten minutes had elapsed when two serious accidents had occurred. A champion of the blue, in his undue haste in trying to get the ball, slipped and fell, tearing a serious rent in his knickerbockers, which necessitated his withdrawal from the field and the filling of his place with a substitute. The other accident happened to a Harvard man, who, in some way smutched his Troy-laundried shirk bosom, obliging him to retire to the gymnasium in order to make a change. These were the only serious accidents...
...little village of four or five hundred inhabitants. In five years it became a city of 25,000 population. Tents were not comfortable, and rude houses of canvas and pine were rapidly built. The Parker House, the leading hotel, a frame building, brought over $60,000 per year rent. The annual rental of this city of rags was said to be $12,000,000. The population was then...