Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about Cambridge in extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...
...Harvard by Lowell and Cumnock. It was decided that the two captains should go to Springfield and arrange definitely about the grounds. Gill and Cumnock spent a day in Springfield, and had the field staked out. A car penter gave his price for building temporary grand stands and a contractor roughly estimated the cost of putting the field in condition to play the game. Until the field is surveyed the exact cost cannot be obtained. It is expected that the whole expenditure will be about $700 and that amount will probably be raised by the citizens and hotels of Springfield...
...hinders the reformation of the prisoner, which should be the main object of penal institutions. (a) by transforming him into a money-making machine. (Illinois Labor Report for 1886, pp. 89 and 90). (b) by the predominant influence of the contractor, whose interest is opposed to reformation. (Ill. Report...
...interests of the contractor are opposed to those of the State.- Report of the Illinois Labor Bureau...
...more points in regard to our future swimming-bath may be of interest to the college. Some time ago a friend of the university made a generous contribution toward the building of this bath. Thereupon the college authorities placed in the hands of a contractor the matter of investigating the water supply which could be obtained for the baths. The result of this investigation was the boring of the wells which we have been watching from day to day near the gymnasium. It was found that abundant water could be had from these wells for the purpose. That the bath...