Word: costing
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...this building, that they ought to have the opportunity of contributing towards its ornamentation. It will be a home for many of them and they would naturally like to feel that they had given some thing towards its completion. They could appropriately provide by subscription for the extra cost of the carving in wood and stone at the Harvard end of the living room, or for any other form of ornament considered necessary by the architect. The plain wainscoting has already been generously provided for. I think you would do well to call the attention of the class presidents...
...series on "Wage Statistics," his special subject being "Real Wages in the Past Half Century." In Friday's talk the speaker had considered the statistics of real wages from the stand point of prices; in last evening's address he approached the subject from the point of "cost of living" and of the purchasing power of money...
When the statistics of the cost of living have been perfected we shall have the best idea of real wages, for these figures would give us the most trust-worthy and accurate record of the proportion in which commodities have been consumed. Engel and Giffen have both made valuable contributions to the statistics of the cost of living. An Italian statistical table, published in 1898, is interesting in showing the increase in the purchasing power of labor. The table which entends from 1871 to 1895 gives the number of hours of labor necessary to purchase 100 Kilograms of wheat...
...December it was found that the original donation of $25,000 would not cover entirely the cost of the building, and the New York Harvard club at once subscribed $2,500 more. By the last of December the building was well toward completion. On the morning of December 27 a fire started in a small work-house where workmen were heating creosote shingle-stain. An explosion followed, which set fire to the boat house and in a very short time the building had burned to the ground. The launch, Frank Thompson, which was lying near, was also destroyed...
Cornell is to build a five story hydraulic laboratory which will cost about...