Word: contract
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...department, consisting of a lecture-room capable of seating three hundred persons, and two large art galleries for statuary and pictures. The seats will be so arranged in the recitation-rooms that the light from the windows will fall over the left shoulders of the students. The contract specifies that the building will be finished by April...
...Yale College, after an exciting canvass, wheeled into line, but unanimously re-elected him the following year. The same year ('78) Harvard and Columbia chose him enthusiastically, and were immediately followed by Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, and Wesleyan. He has now no less than 120,000 pictures under contract, and, beginning with West Point in 1875, he has been retained on the superior merit of his work by every college, embracing, at present, Vassar, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, and Wesleyan. Truly a remarkable record for a young man who began his career, fifteen years ago, over a stable...
...first-class orations reproduced in three days' time; class-day and graduation printing in the latest style of the art-preservative. We cordially extend an invitation to the survivors of the Lampoon to call and examine the largest printing establishment in New England. Rand, Avery, & Co., Printers by contract to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and by courtesy to their Royal Nibs - the undergraduates of Harvard University. - Courier - Journal...
...unanimous opinion of the meeting that the terms of the contract with Mr. Blakey ought to be adhered to, and that any attempt to shirk the payment of the mortgage - a mortgage which is not such a swindle as it is popularly supposed to be - would only result in the loss of our time and money, to say nothing of our honor and credit...
...first place, it seems to some of the officers of the clubs that the present system is not a success, and that no amount of energy on their part can keep it going; the original contract with Blakey provides that each of the four clubs shall contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just...