Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen are pulling a sort of man-of-war stroke at present. They are working in the right spirit, however, and an improvement in their rowing is easily seen from day today. There are some good men in the boat, and the crew is without doubt big and strong enough, despite the reports to the contrary. Just now their oars are in the air all the time except during a very vigorous catch, but this is always noticeable in a green crew...
...Look at her system of subsidizing her shipping. Up to 1885 she had already paid $273.563,000 in protecting and developing her commerce by means of mail subsidies. It is said that the present tariff needs reform, that it is full of inequalities and abominations. No man would do other than support any measure-whether specific legislation for particular cases or general revision-which would correct injustices and remove inequalities. The question before the nation is, however, not one of reform or even of the disposal of the surplus. The accumulation of a surplus could be stopped by buying bonds...
...author later gives the price of the cheapest rooms as $25 and the least expenditure for gas, $9; and since fuel is not given as a separate item, it is probably included here in all classes. $25 deducted from the estimate for clothing would leave sufficient for a careful man; and the allowance for sundries should be cut $50 fully in order to approach Professor Palmer's estimates. Since every considerable item of expense is given separately, the allowances for sundries in all grades seem disproportionately large. The tables in two of the letters in the appendix to Professor Palmer...
...wide variation from Professor Palmer's figures. The author of "College Expenses" states that of the two lowest grades together-men spending less than $810-there are about thirty men from each class; whereas Prof. Palmer, in answer to the question "What is a competent allowance for a man coming to Harvard?" says: "If he will live closely, carefully, yet with full regard to all that is required, he may do so, with nearly half his class, on not more than $800." Again the author apologizes for making a grade as low as $600, saying that only half-a-dozen...
...columns has satisfactory grounds for his impeachment of the figures given in the Monthly. It seems evident that not $650 but $500 should be taken as the minimum of expenses. The figures given by Mr. Leighton are too large, because they include some expenses which a really economical man would never incur, while the estimates of others are inconsistently large. For similar reasons, the totals in the medium grades are not low enough. It is rather surprising to find the term "modest" attached to a grade in which the estimated expense is $1,225. It appears to us that...