Word: buy
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Chelsea." What were we doing in Chelsea? We were on a "geological survey" to study the formations of the country around. Unfortunately, we only had a self-appointed '80 man for an instructor, but being an '80 man he was a perfect stranger there, so he was obliged to buy a compass, in order to "know where he was when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions...
This name gives a kind of glamour to the place which is irresistible to the Freshman. He looks upon Mr. Sever with no less awe and affection than on the Registrar himself. He considers it a privilege to buy books at a store sanctioned by the Faculty of his dear College, and pays for his Chauvenet and Horace with no thought or wish that there might be better bargains. If not before the end of his first year, then surely at the beginning of the second, he awakes to the knowledge that he is paying exorbitant prices. He looks around...
...they can give orders for the books they recommend to their sections; but is it necessary that all should order of one man, thus establishing a monopoly in the book trade? The students suffer by it, and the number is large of those who go to the city to buy when they hear that they can get what they want there. I think there is plenty of room in Cambridge for another bookstore. If no dealer comes forward to supply the demand for books at better prices, the professors should take the initiative and divide their orders between Mr. Sever...
...Yale Crew is in much need of a steam launch, and effort is being made by friends in New York to buy...
...hitherto been the custom for the Class-Day Committee to sell tickets to Seniors for the various exercises only in the large packages, for which the price has usually been about ten dollars, and is eleven this year. Many men who cannot afford to buy tickets at all at this price, would be very glad to buy fewer tickets at the same rates. It is too late to make any change this year; but it seems only right that such men should be provided for in future, by selling smaller packages, as well as the larger. Packages containing 3 Yard...