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...content with packing forty boarders into very limited quarters, measures are being taken to sit fourteen at each table, instead of twelve. I believe there are more than thirty boarders at Memorial beyond the seating capacity; and, although we are told that this number helps to reduce the cost of living, there are few of us who would not prefer to pay the few cents' difference per week, to incur the actual discomfort. The association must remember that, two or three years ago, a general exodus took place from Memorial when an attempt was made to impose inferior food upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...Cost of prizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR ANNEXED SISTERS. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...said Digger. "College rooms are a commodity of the third class; that is, they can be increased indefinitely, but at a greater cost, because each new building is more expensive than any of its predecessors. Therefore the value of college rooms must be regulated by the cost of the worst rooms. No, that is wrong - that is, Mr. Mill is wrong, or else the College authorities have transgressed a law of value, or else I am a little confused. I'll rest myself by a change of work. Let me see. Here is a Fine Arts paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANNUAL ILLUSION. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

Dividing this balance of $11,300.80 by 2729, the number of weeks, gives $4.14; adding head money, .08, gives $4.22, or say $4.25 as the cost of board per week during the month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

Dividing this balance of $11,391.92 by 2,804, the number of weeks, gives $406; adding head-money, .09, gives $4.15 as the cost of board per week during the month of March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »