Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Board through the lower part of the Hall and explained its workings. This was interesting to the Directors, to be sure, but they knew no more when they came out than they did when they went in. Meanwhile members were rapidly leaving the Hall, and the board was growing poorer. Resolutions were then introduced requesting the removal of Mr. Farmer, on the ground that the students were leaving the Hall. The Directors were unanimous in the opinion that the desertion was caused by Mr. Farmer's incapacity, and they were prevented from saying so only by the thought that such...
...four; and so it goes on. At this rate your grandchildren, if you have any," - "Cela depend," I murmured gently, but she did not hear it, - "will be thirty-five before they are ready to enter any profession, and all the while their chances of success will be growing poorer...
...right to get what price he can for his property, and as long as the rooms are regularly let at the present prices, it would be folly in the College to decrease them. Expensive rooms are provided for the wealthy, and comfortable, but plain ones for the poorer students. It frequently happens, too, that some of the best rooms in the Yard, - as some in Hollis and Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that every student can get a good room here in proportion to his means; but those who are willing only...
...same thing. It would be much less expensive and, as it seems to us, much more picturesque. At Columbia, in the exhibitions given by the "Philolexism," a literary society, the orators and members appear in caps and gowns, and the effect is most charming. A great many of the poorer, that is to say, the more indigent, students, are compelled to go to a great expense in order to procure dress-suits, - sometimes much greater than they can afford. The caps and gowns would not cost more than ten dollars, and would be a delightful memento, after graduation...
...more to spend. If the number of those who could not afford this advance is large, the other plan would be best, though more expensive to those who ordered extras. It is said that it would not do to make so marked a distinction between the richer and the poorer students; but does any one know of any bad result of the distinction that already exists between men who go to club tables and those who economize at Memorial...