Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessity for the present bill-(a) Thousands of ex-soldiers are dependent for support on private charity, or are in our almshouses; the nation should support them. (b) Lack of legislation for special cases. (c) The bill is framed so as to reduce fraud to a minimum, thereby meeting the objections in the President's veto message of last year...
...think this proves that the way things are managed at Memorial is a crying shame. It would seem to point out that there is either extravagance or fraud there; that either the steward should be dismissed or that expenditure in superfluous ways should be stopped. If a student can buy provisions for twenty-five men at a better price than the steward does for over seven hundred, and give better satisfaction over it withal, it shows that there is something vitally wrong at Memorial which should be overhauled at once...
...great bone of contention for partisan newspapers and political orators, the "Fraud of '76," will be discussed at the Harvard Union to-night. The character of the question is such as to draw a large audience, not only on account of the interest always attached to a political debate, but also because it is a question upon which every man has some opinion, and an opportunity is presented to ventilate his views. A debating society such as the Union should aim to debate questions on live issues and of general interest, as it is only by so doing that...
Professor-"What is fraud?" Student-"Taking willful advantage of a person's ignorance." Professor-"Give example." Student -"Why-er-er-er one of your examinations...
...secretary of the Cooperative Society, a certain student, not a member of the society, has been found guilty of using a member's ticket in order to purchase goods at the society's store. Of course, such an offence is nothing more nor less than deliberate fraud, and fraud, too, against the offender's own fellow students. However, such a case, from necessity, must be so rare an occurrence among those who profess to be gentlemen, that we but briefly call attention to it, before dismissing it from mind...