Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...professors in the various departments of literature. Only a short time since, the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth cantos of the Inferno were read to an audience of five students and four outsiders; while a few weeks before a multitudinous concourse of three - including a library clerk - assembled to hear a reading from Faust. It may be that we are now having a surfeit of lectures and readings; but it certainly seems that those who fail to attend our evening readings are neglecting their opportunities in a way which they will be sorry for hereafter...
Although no one society is of sufficient magnitude to employ salaried officials, there seems to be no reason why several of them should not club together and establish a sort of bureau of management. At the present time there are plenty of experienced clerks and book-keepers out of employment, who would be only too glad to keep the books and manage the money matters of college societies. The Boat Club, the Base-Ball Club, the Foot-Ball Club, etc., might join together to employ a regular salaried clerk to manage their business, to send out and collect bills...
...England the two societies have advanced far enough to have buildings of their own, which would not be possible for us at first; but the College might lend us Massachusetts, and we could change that from the barn it is at present to suitable rooms for the club. A clerk would be needed to sell coffee and cigars, who would also look after the reading-room and library, when the latter was obtained. Then the reading-room would be more inviting and orderly, and more reading would be done, while those who steal papers would be detected. As regards...
...BURR OAK young lady entered a drug-store lately, and wanted to see the papers for a week back, and the intelligent clerk showed her a roll of sticking-plaster. - Tyro...
...what steamer it is, and they reply the "Rusher." Name strikes me favorably. I ask if she is named "Rusher" on account of her speed. The clerk smiles, but makes no reply. I take the best berth that is left. Jenkins, who has been abroad some twenty times or more, tells me it is the poorest berth on the ship; he also charges me to be very particular about what I wear when on board. I immediately order a new diagonal suit of clothes and purchase a fine silk...