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...following winter for reasons of economy. Upon popular demand it was re-opened in October, 1934 for graduate students, primarily those from the Law School. Before the winter was over the old Gym was again, closed, for there had been too little enthusiasm to warrant the expense of its upkeep...
Besides the mire and dust of gravel paths there is a greater total expense to the university. Asphalt requires very little upkeep and makes snow removal infinitely cheaper and more rapid. The use of dangerous and unsightly narrow wooden walks in winter is unnecessary; the expensive storage and repair of these may be abandoned...
...University's decision to undergo the expense of establishing suitable quarters for the commuters on condition that the latter would finance the upkeep of the building was arrived at late last March as the result of a storm of protest and criticism which lasted during the greater part of the college year and which was brought to bear on University officials through the efforts of the commuters themselves and of Phillips Brooks House...
...years ago the high cost of laying down six miles of boards and the increasing upkeep necessary for the renewal of wornout planks had made the annual expense almost prohibitive...
...Muslems, the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's Daughter Fatima, an honorary member of the Jockey Club and a member of His Majesty's Privy Council. He is so fond of pleasure that in the last five years his string of race horses, whose upkeep costs him $150,000 a year, have won nearly every important race in Europe, and become, with the possible exception of the Whitney stables in the U. S., the most valuable in the world. Though he rules no territory, the Aga Khan earned the gratitude of the British Government, the right...