Word: costliest
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...compare the rents of rooms at Harvard with that at English universities. "The rent of rooms in the college dormitories ranges from $300 downward. At Oxford, the most expensive university in Europe, room rent is not nearly so high; the highest priced rooms in Christ Church College, the costliest of all, being but pound18 18s., about $95; at Balliol the total average cost of furnished rooms is about pound20-$100; at Magdalene the highest priced rooms are pound15, or $75, and so on through the twenty and more colleges and halls. In short, the room rent for students at Harvard...
...word of commendation should be given the costumes for their elegance and beauty. The pupils are always attired in the costliest robes that the school can procure, and each, in his luxurious dressing-room, has a servant to attend to his every need. Truly, if there be no "royal road to knowledge," there is still one to the summit of dramatic art open to our students...