Word: purveyors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Releasing purveyor lists to the 1947-48 and subsequent Albums...
Proprietors of Local male haberdashers report an inverted problem. "Can't get these dames out of the store," one purveyor complained. "They keep trying on argyle socks...
Vice-President Reynolds is criticized heavily in the Committee report. In connection with the Class Album, termed "one of the cornerstones of class unity," the withholding of the purveyor list, cause of a mid-summer storm, is condemned as inconsistent with "ethics." Reynolds refused to give Album advertising men a list of purveyors to the University, but "stated that he thought other sources of finding out University purveyors could be tapped...
Asserting that "the economic argument for the release of the purveyor list can be neither ignored nor denied," the report "finds it hard to square Vice-President Reynolds' position with his 'ethical' objections," and asks for a loan from the College as a temporary arrangement during the present inflationary period. Finally, the Committee recommends that the classes of '49 and '50 move to set up Album boards immediately...
Although library officials reported a slackening of intellectual activity, local saloon keepers jingled cash-registers to an October high. "This is good beer weather," one purveyor said...