Word: cheapness
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...CRIMSON will enjoy its annual merry-go-round with the Lampoons this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the second team diamond. At the last moment the cheap-wits have hired a slab-artist who has recently been drawing a salary from the Chelsea Sufferers' Relief Fund. He will be easy glue for the CRIMSON stickers, however...
...fiction is, as usual, of uneven merit. "The City of Hoggsville" and "Adin Ray Knight Errant" are slight, but distinctly amusing. "Room-mates" introduces a good situation, but the difficulty is not sufficiently explained by the subsequent appearance of a cheap and consumptive sister to the mysterious "mate." "A Hater of Pictures" is written, perhaps intentionally, in that racy style that one associates with tracts, but the denouement is cleverly concealed till the last sentence, and then it is so sudden that the it leaves the reader gasping...
...will be dropped in press and in conversation. The beautiful tribute to Professor James in the second gives expression to the love and respect held for him by all his former students. The paragraph in "public lectures given in the University" is interesting as snowing our quickness in detecting cheap sentiment, affectation, and our inability to divorce the man, as we see him superficially and are impressed, from the cause which we know even less. The statement that we listened to Mr. Aladyin "with awe and admiration" is true--and sad, because it shows that we are willing to applaud...
...first association for railway men in the Orient was opened a year ago this month at Jamalpur, a city of 75,000 on the East Indian railway: and during the last year work has been started also in behalf of the army, at Madras, for example, cheap suppers being served to an average of about 140 soldiers every night. Many of the associations provide facilities for tennis, etc., and some of the Association cricket and football teams are among the best in India...
...Avenel said that land-wealth had greatly increased of late years, whereas formerly, when land was cheap, great tracts had been held by single individuals. Land rents in the Middle Ages were more indirect than direct, and were levied more on the people than on things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last...