Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would involve rather more of an expenditure than the occasion requires. Alpaca, however, answers excellently for the purpose, and the expense is not heavy. The cost of an entire costume can be considered as not exceeding $10.00, and a considerable discount from this price could be obtained if a contract were made with one person to supply all that were needed...
...Amount paid J. L. & R. Nesbitt (contract...
...year to a boat-club unless he considers the benefit he derives from the club to be worth the money. Why is it, then, that some of the clubs find it so difficult to obtain a membership sufficiently numerous to indemnify Mr. Blakey and fulfil their contract, and how may this state of things be improved...
...into the hall, and not to a lack of waiters. The result, then, of the Directors' investigation is, a general commendation of the management of the Dining-Hall, and the fair interpretation of the figures and facts collected by them can support no other result. As to that mythical "contract" which a writer in the Advocate paraded in all its broken splendor, where each table was represented as having signed away its birthright to beer and brandy for the services of an undivided waiter, and then to have been cruelly defrauded of several shares in that waiter by a merciless...
...their counters with what was really Harvard's color, and not, as last year, sell quite another shade from the true one. Moreover, ribbon can be manufactured much more reasonably abroad; and the club ribbons furnished at a very reasonable price, and of satisfactory quality. Any large house would contract to furnish Harvard with all the ribbon needed, and then we could be sure of having it all alike. The suits, too, could be made there for less than is charged here, and the whole probably would cost less and be more satisfactory than at present...