Word: sell
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...finds, as early as 1734. "The buttery came to be a recognized department of the college, where students could purchase provisions. beer, cider and other extras, in order that they might have no excuse for frequenting the public houses and taverns in the town. The butler was authorized to sell his wares at an advance of fifty per cent. beyond the current price and from this source derived a part of his salary. History repeats itself...
...hard to understand the mental attitude of those students who can sell their fellow-students grand stand tickets for today's game at an advance in price and attempt to maintain their self-respect. Speculating in tickets, taking advantage of the fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates...
Owing to the improvements made in the tennis courts last summer the tennis association will no longer be able to sell coupon tickets at reduced rates. Coupons will not be received in payment for the use of courts after Saturday. October 4. Season tickets, price $6.00 can be obtained of the man in charge of the courts...
...direct violation of the rules a member of the college (whose name is in the possession of the committee) has furnished a clerk in Clafin's drugstore with Memorial tickets for public sale. The clerk under direction of said person, agreed to sell two Memorial tickets for $7.00, and gave the following receipt...
...cents: Memorial $1.50; tree $1.75; Sanders $2.00. Every purchaser of a ticket, in purchasing, agrees; 1, That if the ticket be for Memorial or the yard it shall be void unless signed by the senior to whom it is sold by the Class Day Committee; 2, not to sell, barter or part with for any consideration, any Class Day tickets, except to the Class Day Committee; 3, to return on or before June 17, such tickets as are not needed for the use of himself or friends, to the committee, who will refund the amount paid...