Word: cheapness
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...efficient, it is cheap...
...finds himself on the losing side in the battle of life! He looks over the Catalogue, sees that the noble provision of scholarships cannot reach him, observes that the rent of his old college room has been trebled, and tells his boys that they must go to some cheap college in the country, - if indeed he is able to send them to any. Stronger cases than this might be easily adduced. The merchant who is struggling to avoid bankruptcy, the holder of real estate whose value has sunk below the mortgage, cannot enter the academic confessional and make known their...
...WILL you go to the opera?" asked my chum. "No; it is too expensive," said I. "Well, then, come along, and I'll show you an exhibition that has just opened; cheap as dirt." So saying, he pulled me out of the room. We walked along till we reached a spacious building which had bulletins posted up: "The Carnival of Electives, admission $1.00. Soft Electives in the Gallery." I entered, and saw booths arranged along both sides of a huge hall. There was one representing a Greek house; within were seen various groups in Greek costume; in one corner Homer...
...tossed down in a corner of the vestibule in Memorial Hall, with the packing case half opened; and in that insecure position it remained till a week ago, when it was moved to Sanders Theatre. It hardly seems possible that so long a time was necessary for building so cheap and flimsy a pedestal, unless indeed the Corporation have been engaged in collecting the bricks in the streets, to economize the price even of this inexpensive material...
Constitution. - We hope that the first step of the Executive Committee of the H. A. A. will be to provide a Constitution, By-Laws, etc., and a set of rules for every sport which they patronize. All these, when drawn up, submitted, and approved, should be printed in cheap form, and sold to the members at cost price. That an institution of such importance should have been suffered to exist so long without such essential articles is only another instance of the proverbial Harvard indifference...