Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE great Daniel Pratt is in town once more. He is canvassing the "Lunatic," and is as full of "elements" as ever.
Taking any few of them into comparison, their scales of prices are absurdly varied. Of two recent catalogues of firms with which our students have dealings, the prices of volumes of "Bohn's Library" are just one third higher in one than the other, though the lower price named is...
"Marking down" sets of books from a very high to what is termed a low figure is a popular way of drawing in those who do not see that the man of straw was set up simply for the purpose of knocking him over again.
Buying up all the books of a kind within reach and then selling them at an advanced price, a trick with which many of us are unpleasantly familiar, is a very neat plan for increasing the profits at first, but, we venture to suggest, may not pay in the long...
THE following notice of the H. U. B. C. may be found of interest to Freshmen: "Keys to the boat-house will be furnished to members free of expense. Members who have already paid for their keys may have the money refunded. Any member of Harvard University may become a...