Word: spending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princetonian copies the following from the New York World: "Few men spend more than $4,000 during a term at Harvard, and, as a rule, expenses are lighter than at any other college...
...Still there is another side to the story. Thus far I have figured out the expenses, and have said nothing about the means of meeting them. Perhaps to get the advantages of Harvard, a student may need to spend largely but a certain circumstance enables him to do so,- I mean the matchless benevolence of those who have preceded us here. The great sums interested to us for distribution in prizes, loan funds and scholarships make it possible for our students to offset the cost of their education to such a degree that the not output of a poor...
...indicate that a soberly, sensible average of expense prevails at Harvard. They suggest that students are, after all, merely young men temporarily removed from homes, and that they are practicing here, without violent change, the habits which the home has formed. Those who have been accustomed to large expenditure spend freely here; those of quiet and considerate habits do not lightly abandon them. But it may seem that the smallest of the sums named is large for a poor man. It may be believed that even after restraint and wisdom are used, Harvard remains the college of the rich. There...
Dean Smith and his family will spend next winter at Philadelphia...
Professor Beebe of Yale will spend the summer abroad...