Word: renting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desirable room furnished or unfurnished, at No. 30 Shepard Street, Cambridge. Rent reasonable. Inquire at the house...
Recent statistics show the cost of living at German universities, notwithstanding the fact that the Germans are becoming fonder of spending money then they once were, is still very low as compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college...
...last summer several agencies around the country, where they kept bicycles and tricycles to let; they also taught riding. Now, perhaps they could be prevailed upon to take one of these rooms and fit it up, having stalls which they would let to students for bicycles, the rent of stall might include care of machine. They could use what extra space is left for a stock of their own which they could keep to tent. The other rooms could be used for above purposes. The billiard room would be a long felt want supplied, and also the reading-room...
...wood yard they cannot need all the room which the building affords. There must be at least room enough to enable the bicycle club to establish a headquarters in it, with opportunities for storage for their machines. The plan suggested by the writer of having an agency for the rent of bicycles would doubtless meet with approval by many who desire to ride occasionally, but who do not care to buy or have the trouble of keeping one themselves. However, we doubt if the college authorities would allow a college building to be used by outside parties. Still this latter...
Prof. Francis A. Walker's series of lectures which were delivered before the Harvard Finance Club last May, have been published in book-form under the title "Land and Its Rent," by Little, Brown...