Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...starvation and poverty they are driven to desperation and when desperate the are dangerous to the community. To remedy the evil of their situation something must be done which no careless charity can do. Giving a man money that he has not earned only pushes him farther down the scale of manhood and makes the struggle to get up all the harder...
...courses is required, it cannot be positively said how many men will be here. Men are always assisted in finding rooms by the committee in charge of the Summer School, and the Foxcroft Club is kept open during the summer when it is run on a somewhat higher scale than in winter. The price of room and board will probably run from five to ten dollars a week...
...students are to give confidence to the team-and the team needs it badly,- the only effective way is to begin at the start. The power of cheering is not infinite. If other things are about equal it will turn the scale; but when one nine has the confidence that comes from a winning lead and the other the nervousness that comes from a threatened defeat, then cheering is about so much noise and nothing more. Let the cheering,- honest, hearty cheering, greet the nine when it comes out of the Carey Building, and from that time...
...asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense and still more ruinous waste of time and health and faculties? Du gleichst dem Geist den du begreifst, says the World Spirit to Faust, and this is true of the ascending no less than of the descending scale. Every book we read may be made a round in the ever-lengthening ladder by which we climb to knowledge and to that temperance and serenity of mind which, as it is the ripest fruit of Wisdom, is also the sweetest. But this can only be if we read such...
Notices have been sent to occupants of rooms in Hollis and Stoughton informing them that "by vote of the Corporation, February 26, 1894, the scale of prices of rooms in Hollis and Stoughton is to be increased from the beginning of the academic year, 1894-95; except that present tenants in these halls who reengaged their rooms for 1894-95, shall not be required to pay the increase in price during that year." The new rates are from fifty to seventy-five per cent. higher than the old. The lowest priced rooms in these dormitories, which formerly were...