Word: draw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 for the money." It is a well known fact that the laundry is used as a "draw." Many of us are thus victimized. We come here knowing little about the management of finances, run up bills which, while running, we are not troubled about, but, when obliged to meet, we often find our capital too small to cover. This policy on the part of store-keepers should...
...might as well come out plainly and recognize the facts as they are. Every student has in his list of acquaintances one or more cases where seniors have retained rooms and have afterwards transferred them to other friends who were not so fortunate as to draw rooms. Does any one suppose that all those '82 men who have retained their rooms intend to come back this year? Of course not. The catalogue next year will show that they did not intend to return. Another abuse is the practice now in vogue of having a number of men draw...
Another case where the undergraduates are treated unfairly is in the retaining of a large part of the best rooms for the incoming freshmen. I see no reason why a man who has four years' drawings before him should have an advantage over a man who has but one or two. If a man does not get a room in his first drawing it seems that he is to be considered after those who have never drawn at all. It would be much fairer to let the freshmen take their chances with all the rest...
...DRAW A ROOM...
...librarian himself at Cambridge University is required to give a bond of pound100 before he is allowed to draw a particularly valuable manuscript from the library...