Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual expenses in Cambridge will be less than $550, not including a small spread which I will give Class Day. While I have not spent money needlessly, I have not pinched myself at all and have been fortunate in obtaining low-priced rooms. It is in this respect alone that Harvard is necessarily more expensive than many other American colleges...
...smaller than that which I have had ($1000 a year). In view of the small sum on which some men go through college, it may seem ridiculous for me to say this, but I do not consider that I have been extravagant, though in some cases I might have spent more judiciously...
...have spent $1,200 a year; and I hardly need to add that much of it has gone unnecessarily, and that were I to pass through these years again I could easily and satisfactorily get on with much less...
...tell me in confidence what his college course had cost. I desired him to include in his report all expenses whatever. He was to state not merely his tuition, board and lodging, but also his furniture, books, clothing, travel, subscription and amusements; in fact, every dollar he had spent during the four years of his study, except his charge for Class Day and the summer vacation these times (?) that they could not instructively enter into an average...
...What then are the results? Out of the two hundred and nineteen men who have replied, fifty-six, or about one-quarter of the class, have spent between $450 and $650 in each of the four year's residence; fifty-four, or again, about a quarter, have spent between $650 and $975; but sixty-one, hardly more than a quarter, have spent a larger sum than $1,200. The smallest amount in any one year was $400; the largest...