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...running for the Pudding to drag the net round them, and the business is done. Stow them away in adjoining cellars until they are wanted. They could be very cheaply kept on Memorial or Fresh Pond soup, whichever is decided to be the most nutritious. You would have complete control of the market, because you would be sure to have ninety-five per cent of the small boys living within a radius of three miles. Prices could be arranged to suit the demand, varying inversely as the laziness of the boys, and directly as the laziness of the players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BUSINESS OPENING AT HARVARD. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...sway? The Dining Association does not pay rent to the College, so that the Bursar, who, except in respect to the lecture halls, acts merely as a money agent, a convenience to transfer the rent to the owner of the property, would not have even the shadow of the control over them which he believes himself to possess over the occupants of College rooms. "How, then, could there be any trouble between him and the Directors? For surely the Bursar must have studied his own duties and powers too carefully to overstep them." Let us see. In March last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...attracted to New London in numbers sufficiently great to make the profits of transporting them pay for the costs of good management; and they have no intention of ruining their own present prestige by attempting a complicated 'regatta' which might attract a larger crowd than they could safely control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MORE FRESHMEN AT NEW LONDON. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

...DEFINITION. "Juno, however, found out the trick that was played upon her, and punished Echo by changing her into an echo, that is, a being with no control over its tongue, which is neither able to speak before anybody else has spoken, nor to be silent when somebody else has spoken." - Smith's Class Dict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...Crimson will call a meeting, - time and place to be announced hereafter, - where all those interested may discuss the advisability of organizing a debating society. While we thus take the initiative in this matter, we desire to have it understood that the Crimson lays no claim to the control of the society, should it be started, but hopes to see it supported by all those in college who will work earnestly to make the venture a success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/19/1880 | See Source »