Word: selling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be a canvass of the University dormitories this evening and tomorrow evening to sell tickets for the debate with Princeton in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. No other subscription will be taken for the debating team, this canvass being its sole support. Tickets, at 25, 50, or 75 cents, may also be purchased from the Cooperative Branch, Amee Brothers, or Matthews...
...project has met with the approval of the university and the class of 1918 will immediately proceed to sell stock and raise the money for the new dormitory. The Yale Alumni Weekly says: "The stand of the present sophomores, unwilling to face a third year as campus outcasts and yet ready to put their shoulders to the wheel in the matter of providing adequate freshman dormitory accommodations, cannot but command respectful attention and applause...
...would be an unquestioned advantage to the theatre from an advertising stand-point to sell out the house to students and if it so happened that there was more than one good musical show in Boston at the time, it might be possible to procure seats at less than $3.00 apiece...
However improbable it may seem, debating costs money. We have not any fund on which to draw; nor do we harass the students begging for names on a subscription list. Obviously the only method left, by which we can secure money, is to sell tickets to the Harvard-Yale debate. This ticket sale is the only means we have to raise funds to send a team to Princeton and to pay the expenses incident to the Harvard-Yale debate at Cambridge...
...year many inexperienced men become retailers, and each year many in experienced men become retailers, and each year thousands of these retailers fail. The business of store-keeping is so commonplace that people do not hesitate to embark in it and they are highly surprised if they fail. "To sell a pound of nails or a package of coffee," says Mr. Copeland, "appears so simple that the problems of buying, selling, stock-handling, accounting and managing are over-looked. The general public, on its side, shows its ignorance of these problems by talking lightly of middleman elimination. Although twenty...