Word: cheapness
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...that so much sameness is displayed in the furniture and general aspect of our College rooms? Is there so much similarity in men's tastes that they converge by some natural law towards red curtains, cheap prints (obtained we all know how), photographs of Soldene, Aimee, etc., etc.; or, is it merely because it is easier to fit up a room after the stereotyped pattern of one's neighbor's, than to exercise individual taste...
...page. The only historical precedent for such action I can think of is the appropriation by the schoolmen of the manuscripts of the classical authors for their own worthless scribblings. But then the schoolmen lived at a time when parchment was scarce and dear; now, when stationery is so cheap, the impropriety of any such mediaeval practice is too apparent to admit of further comment...
...object of the club-system when founded was (1) to afford the general body of the students a cheap way of obtaining healthful exercise, (2) to develop material for the crews, (3) to stimulate excellence in rowing by the emulation of the different clubs. The latter two are contingent aims, to be reached through the accomplishment of the first, and the support of the clubs will always depend upon the success with which they meet the need of the main body of the students. Such being the case, it is evident that if all the clubs are not flourishing...
...obliging them to have three separate courses at dinner, and, though that particular reform may have been unnecessary, there is certainly plenty of room for further improvements. The price is too low to allow our meals to be made appetizing, and much of our food is therefore of a cheap kind; the meats are from inferior cuts, or are not well carved; we do not have anything warm at lunch; the tablecloths and napkins are coarse or small, and I do not dare to notice how seldom they are washed; in short, as I have said, while all credit...
Several years ago, our malignant contemporary, the Corinth Daily Herald, indulged in considerable cheap wit at the expense of the great and good Socrates. We will admit that as a base-ball player his career was hardly successful; but even his bitterest enemies must confess that nature certainly intended him for a clown, and we defy Corinth or any other Peloponnesian village to produce his equal in that capacity...