Word: severancy
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...next Thursday, the following question is to be debated in English 6: Resolved, That the best interests require the election of General Garfield. Affirmative, Hadley, Hawkins, and MacVeagh. Negative, Gibbons, Davis, and Ivy. Debate begins in Sever 5, at 2 o'clock and lasts until 5 o'clock. All who wish to come are invited...
This name gives a kind of glamour to the place which is irresistible to the Freshman. He looks upon Mr. Sever with no less awe and affection than on the Registrar himself. He considers it a privilege to buy books at a store sanctioned by the Faculty of his dear College, and pays for his Chauvenet and Horace with no thought or wish that there might be better bargains. If not before the end of his first year, then surely at the beginning of the second, he awakes to the knowledge that he is paying exorbitant prices. He looks around...
...when they hear that they can get what they want there. I think there is plenty of room in Cambridge for another bookstore. If no dealer comes forward to supply the demand for books at better prices, the professors should take the initiative and divide their orders between Mr. Sever and some one else. They have the power to furnish us with lowpriced books, and it is a shame that, having this power, they continue to allow and encourage a burdensome monopoly...
Russ.[It seems to us that the difficulty above mentioned might be prevented, if the authorities should have it stipulated with Mr. Sever that no more than the usual retail book-trade price (with discount for cash) be charged for any books used in College courses...
...SEVER Hall has not been engaged for a spread on Class Day. It will be open for public inspection...