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Business is most brisk in glasses, galoshes, scarfs, and green bags, according to Apted. At the present time, the office is holding seven pairs of spectacles for possible claimants, and two and one-half pairs of gloves. Second-hand books are a constant source of trouble. Frequently, the name inscribed in the book is that of the owner once or twice removed. A few weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim...
Aside from a batch of bills for professional services, on which he could not collect a penny, John Doctor's assets were meagre-$400 cash in the bank, one $100 Liberty bond, a second-hand automobile worth $200, a $300 lot. Total: $1,000. If ever a man was insolvent, it was John Doctor...
...have been available to Freshmen, while the large volume of reading for History I was adequately covered. The increasing expense of Government texis led to the purchase of the new books, according to Miss Milner. The cost of the two volumes of Finer is twelve dollar, and no second-hand copies are available...
...Cambridge, are a serious drain on the pockets of most Government students, the total cost, to date, being thirty-three dollars--fourteen the first half-year, nineteen the second. In particular, I call to your notice a required text, "The Theory and Practice of Modern Government," by Herman Finer (The Dial Press. 2 vols. 1932) which sells for the amazing price of twelve dollars, and is not obtainable second-hand. True, there are copies of these in the various libraries; but, to quote from the Government assignment sheet, "members of the course will find it convenient to own copies...
...racing stables which produced Reigh Count and Anita Peabody. Austrian-born Mr. Hertz sold his school books when he was 11 and became a copy boy, then assistant sports editor on the Chicago Daily News. He managed pugilists before he became an automobile salesman, bought a lot of second-hand cars and started what became Yellow...