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...from there being no means of reducing expenditures, there is rather an obligation to increase them, and all this while the loss from agricultural depression is great and the future clouded with uncertainty. The proposition was that the payments of the undergraduates be raised from pound1 per annum to pound2, the master of Balliol remarking that what the undergraduates had gained was not to be measured by pound1 or pound5 or pound10. It was adopted in congregation by a vote...
...affluent parents may spend at Harvard from $1,000 to $1,800 without acquiring a reputation for extravagance. While at Oxford, England, a commoner has been known to spend Pound2,000, or even pound3,000 a year without exciting comment...