Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...careful reading of the communication will show the utter lack of facts by which such charges ought to be sustained. In the first place complaint is made because the sittings were given hurriedly. It will be remembered that by the contract all sittings were to be finished by the first of March. Notices to this effect frequently appeared in this paper long before the above date. Personal appeals were made for early sitting; appointments were made by members of the committee and by the photographer; and appointments for sittings were given both at the Cambridge studio and at the Boston...
Before the contract was made, Mr. Notman promised to do the work in highest style at his Boston studio. With that undesstanding, the contract was given him by a small majority vote of the class, at the urgent recommendation of the photographic committee. Now it has been rumored on good authority that Mr. Notman has sub-let the contract for finishing the class pietures to a Boston firm whose business it is to finish work for amateur photographers. If this is true, and the writer believes it to be true, or this communication would not have been written a great...
...photographer was that every member of the class could sit until his negative was entirely satisfactory. If anyone failed to avail himself of this opportunity, whose fault was it? In regard to the groups, the gentleman who claims to represent the class of '85 is entirely wrong. The contract with Mr. Notman includes the class groups, according to the regular custom. Many of these groups have already been taken, and have been accepted as satisfactory by the societies interested. Most of the societies named in the communication are not included in the class work, and with them the senior class...
...freshman crew, little could be gathered from it, except that the total amount was very large, but not any larger than that of the '86 crew. Such a one is not what is meant; but rather a careful business estimate, such as an applicant would make to secure a contract, or an architect furnish to his patron who wished him to figure upon the cost of building a house of given proportions. Such an estimate could be prepared without very great trouble by the treasurer. The boat club is no new organization, and the legitimate expenses of maintaining the crew...
...contract which the committee have signed in behalf of the Class of '85, all photographs must be taken before the close of the present week. Appointments can be made with the committee or at the studio. Mr. Notman will be in charge of the Cambridge Studio on Wednesday and Friday...