Word: contract
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Knowing it to be the policy of the Co-operative Society to obtain the greatest good for the greatest number, I should like to suggest to them, through your columns, that they make a contract with either the Cambridge or some other laundry, to do the laundry work of the college. It will be both economical and convenient; economical, because we can then deal direct with the laundry and avoid the importunings of tradesmen to buy articles which we seldom want but often have forced upon us by such remarks as "willing to accommodate you," "no hurry...
...superstitious. He said, the other day: "I knew, before my season began with Rossi, that it would be a failure. Every one told me so, and the omens came out right, as always. The day Rossi arrived at St. Petersburg the Czar was killed. The day I signed a contract for America with him President Garfield was shot. The steamer we came over in took thirteen days to cross, and we arrived on a Friday. There were three carriages waiting at the boat when we arrived. The first street-car we took had seven people, and the first...
...This plan is not altogether a new one; but we understand that it has received the approval of several members of the college government, and it seems, next to the scheme for a regular university commons, to be the most feasible of any yet suggested. It is that a contract be made between the corporation and some experienced and responsible person, by which the latter shall be allowed to conduct a students' dining hall in Memorial, furnishing (under certain restrictions) board to those members of the university who desire it. Under this plan satisfactory board at varying rates, adjusted...
Willie Edouin, gratified by his success at the Gaiety, will probably take advantage of the privilege accorded in his contract, and give another week of his amusing burlesque...
...contract which Dion Boucicault has signed with Mr. Field to act under the latter's management next season, he agrees to furnish two new plays...