Word: cheapness
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...great mistake, as a moderately careful man can go for the whole summer, and live comfortably for $250, which will cover all expenses. The price for a return ticket, on one of what are considered second-rate lines, is from $110 to $140. Among those which are cheap and at the same time sufficiently comfortable and well managed, are the Anchor, In-man, Guion, &c., sailing from New York, and the Warren line from Boston. These all go to British ports, but if France is chosen as a destination, the French lines will be found very comfortable and quite reasonable...
...application for rooms in the College buildings for the year, a curious change is noticed. Last year students wanted cheap rooms, usually those under $125, but this year the more costly rooms were put first in choice on the application...
...Snod! Snod! a handsome Wilton carpet would be better than fifty cheap rugs; more beauty and wear, and less sham...
...rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than the greatest profusion of cheap trash...
...transfer, but for an exchange of rooms, we do not see that the objection to the plan is a forcible one. In the first place, the old system has not been entirely satisfactory, for when a poor student draws an expensive room, and a wealthy student a cheap one, the advantage of an exchange is obvious. The new plan is adopted to meet just such needs. Under its provisions a student cannot transfer a room to a friend, nor can he take rooms which he does not want for the sake of an investment. Moreover, the new plan...