Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gown and a torch, which can be obtained by purchasing a ticket, price $1.00. These tickets are now on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, the Union, Memorial Hall, the Republican headquarters, 3 Boylston street, and Butler's. Five hundred tickets must be sold before the contract for the costumes can be signed, so that it is imperative that all who wish to parade should purchase their tickets at once. Four years ago 1200 Harvard men turned out in this identical costume. There should be more in line this year, particularly as it is an intercollegiate parade, and Harvard should make...
...true, nevertheless, that a man must necessarily renounce many of his possibilities in order to accomplish anything in this highly specialized world. His interests almost unavoidably contract: he cannot leave the main fine of his pursuit to wander off into devious ways, however alluring. But while engrossment in a chosen task does reclude the possibility of comprehensive self-development and activity, it is nevertheless true that if life is to be kept wholesome and happy, the sense of a wide horizon must not be lost. And it is just that sense of the wholeness of life including all the fragmentary...
...those of consciousness in the opposite term--unity. Consciousness has no dimensions; it includes the universe itself, and self is co-extensive with the universe. Each man therefore carries in himself the conditions and limitations of his own universe. To expand away from the material means spiritual growth; to contract towards it means spiritual deterioration...
...owes his appointment to someone other than the leader. If a half-day's work is done for a whole day's pay, there is no one to complain. The supplies of the city are purchased by persons who have no knowledge of the kind involved in making the contract, so that the city thus loses immense sums. The worst influence morally is the complicity of the police with the worst vices, for whose protection they take money. By the ingenious device of fradulent letting of contracts, lucrative jobs are given to political retainers at unnecessary cost to the city...
Every member of the Senior class has received at least two postal cards requesting him to make an appointment at Tupper's to have his picture taken for the Class Album. According to the terms of the contract no photographs taken after today were to be published; but owing to the laxity or oversight by certain members of the class it has been necessary to extend this time to Saturday. No Seniors making appointments after this date can have their photographs published in the Album. 1908 CLASS PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...