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This policy, on business principles, is, no doubt, right enough. Whether it is just, we do not say. Practically it is making our market of the necessities of a poor man, and saying, "This is all we'll give. Take it, or leave it," - and he, thinking this half-loaf better than no bread, accepts; and allows us to say with pride, "You see, men are glad to come here, even when we don't pay anything worth mentioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMMERCIAL POLICY. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

While a Sophomore loaf like a Turk - what's the odds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARAPHRASE FROM HORACE. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...loaf on rich divans, and loll At ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By a Pitying Sophomore. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...represented in either race. For this we must not look down on Weld, much less on Beck; but rather we must envy their intensely enlightened and cultivated condition, which raises them above ignoble struggles in a club boat to the glorious realms of infinite "loaf." The other clubs are fast approaching this delicious state. Our races must be sacrificed, but let us comfort ourselves: the sacrifice is to the noble cause of civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

...would loaf to a degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SENIOR'S LAMENT. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

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