Word: returning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...operative Society will give 12 1 2 per cent. discount from present laundry prices to all whose linen is called for and returned by the errand boy, as soon as twenty-five more men make the sufficient arrangement. Regular laundry days, Monday and Thursday. At present the boy calls for linen on Monday morning, and returns Thursday p.m. or Friday a.m. Under the arrangement proposed above, boy will collect and return on both days. Special laundry bags are loaned gratis. The Society is not competing against cheap laundry work, and the present excellence of the work done will be maintained...
...publish to-day a communication complaining of some of the rules in force in the library. The writer urges the injustice of the system which causes a man to loose his privilege of taking out reserved books if he fails to return them within a few minutes of nine o'clock. He further says the fines imposed are too heavy, and that the new rule which prevents a man from transferring his privilege is unjust. On the last point the writer may have some ground for complaint; one often wishes to take out books in another man's name...
Lost. On Sunday night between Hilton and Plympton St., a small silver matchbox bearing monogram on the back. Please return to Leavitt & Pierce's or 404 Harvard...
Given a membership of a thousand and suppose a daily attendance of a hundred; any given hundred would return to the club only once in ten days, and this if all the thousand frequented the club. As a matter of fact, only a small proportion would use the club at all and in either case its clique-demolishing work would be small...
...should be free from all pretence and hypocrisy, honest and earnest aiming to be, not to seem esteeming no honor desirable except that which comes in return for character and service...