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...struck from the list of affiliated tradesmen, and members are not entitled to any discount at the store of this firm. In its place, the firm of Graham & Nichols, 10 School St., Boston, is to be put on the list of affiliated tradesmen. The discount is 10 per cent. Messrs. Graham & Nichols are successors to Thos. Powers & Co., who were formerly at 10 School St. They sell boots and shoes ready-made, and also make them to order. The discount will be given in either case. The society can recommend them to members for good work and honest dealing...
...following firm is to be added to the list of affiliated tradesmen: Benj. French & Co., 319 Washington St., Boston, dealers in photographic apparatus and materials. The discount is 10 per cent., except on Cramer, Eastman, and St. Louis dry plates, on which the discount is 5 per cent. All kinds of apparatus and material...
...collected and republished in a pamphlet entitled "The Ethics of the marking System." They are from college men of all descriptions, - graduates, undergraduates, professors, and students. They all agree that a great amount of cribbing is practised in nearly every American college. One writer even affirms that 75 per cent. of the college graduates owe their degree in part to this system of outside help in the examination room. This writer, however, is one of the most extreme, and does not receive general support. Allowing, however, for all exaggerations, it must be confessed that this questionable practice is prevalent...
...minimum mark requisite for passing. They reason that they are gaining no false glory, and are depriving no one of deserved prizes, by a few tricks which are regarded as shrewd rather than dishonest. They take no pains to conceal their method of gaining forty or fifty per cent., and even boast among their companions, of the cunning way in which they hood-winked the proctor...
...saving which can be effected by those who order their books to be imported in this way is very large. On the last importation of French books (ordered last June and received at the beginning of term) the society was able to sell at the rate of 21 cents to the franc. That is, a book of which the published price in France is 3 francs, can be furnished by the society for 63 cents to those who order it to be imported. The book sellers in this country charge anywhere from 30 to 35 cents for the franc...