Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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AT the meeting of the Institute, last Friday evening, the following officers for the annual public meeting were elected.
IN times past (though, of course, there is no such thing now) there have been many students here, with generous hearts and long purses, who have bought everything they thought they wanted without asking the price, and have given to every beggar that called, simply to get rid of them...
This recklessness of a few has brought its evils upon all; for it has made the generosity of students proverbial, and we are all looked upon as young Croesuses, and no price is too high for a student to pay.
Though this is perhaps the most serious evil of their careless generosity, it is not nearly so vexatious as the daily calls of bejewelled purchasers of old clothes, clerical-looking venders of every useless article, and begging impostors who tramp up and down our stairs and hammer at our doors...
It is not enough that prices should rise like the mercury before a south-wind whenever a student enters a store, but every unfortunate person who has heard of Harvard must arm himself with a certificate of high moral character, borrow a car-fare, and make a pilgrimage to this...