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The price is right

Of course prices on everything have gone up since the Territorial Normal School (the precursor to ASU) was founded in 1885. But not everything moves at the same rate — or for the same reasons. Can you guess what the prices were then and now?

By Perri Collins

Of course prices on everything have gone up since the Territorial Normal School (the precursor to ASU) was founded in 1885. But not everything moves at the same rate — or for the same reasons. Can you guess what the prices were then and now?