Word: cheapness
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...present Gymnasium into a swimming-bath, a use for which it is well adapted." A wooden building of any description whatever, placed, as it would probably be, near some one of the substantial brick or stone structures in the College grounds, could not but present a mean and cheap appearance. It is very unfortunate that the University has not the means to erect, what almost every other college in the country now has, a convenient Gymnasium in a substantial, handsome building...
Rich and luxurious bindings have been prized from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...
...them into comparison, their scales of prices are absurdly varied. Of two recent catalogues of firms with which our students have dealings, the prices of volumes of "Bohn's Library" are just one third higher in one than the other, though the lower price named is by no means cheap...
...familiarize those who take it with the general style of modern German writers on history and philosophy. No single author or work will be used, but essays and lectures on historical and kindred subjects by professors at the different German universities. If they can be obtained in a cheap form, some of the following historical monographs will be read in the course. If not these, others of the same character. Founders of the American Union, by Dr. Bluntschli; Origin and Nature of Feudal Institutions, by Dr. Kuhns; Laws which govern Historical Research, by Professor Von Sybel of the University...
...Headache all day. Have returned to my club-table. "Slum" may be cheap and healthy, but I lose too much flesh on it. Have given up Gymnasium. Walking is far healthier, even around a billiard-table...