Word: tradesman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...WALDO.BIBLE CLASS.- The class in the life of St. Paul will meet tonight in 42 Hastings at 7.45, to study Paul the Tradesman...
...recent action of a certain Cambridge tradesman in discriminating against a member of the University on account of his color is, we think, to be condemned. We take this opportunity of publicly expressing our unqualified indignation and at the same time of assuring Mr. Lewis, that as his friends, we strongly resent any such treatment...
...look upon the insult offered to W. H. Lewis by a local barber as something out side of the ordinary case of trouble between a student and a tradesman. It is in one sense a private affair; in another it concerns the college at large. It is plain that the man who refused his accommodations to a student because this student was colored, did so because, in his opinion Harvard men themselves would draw such a distinction. In other words he catered to a snobbish spirit which he thought existed here at college. To outsiders, then, who may hear...
...worthy to represent the university in a great athletic event and to eat at the same table with other members of the team, is worthy of indiscriminate treatment by a Cambridge tradesman. But when such a man can command the respect of all who know him, whose character has always been borne out by his conduct, he deserves the impartial treatment of the students themselves. We have little to say of a man who will deny this, We are glad that in Harvard there is a just appreciation of a person's worth. When an insult is offered...