Word: severing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SENIORS are requested to examine the proofs, now posted at Sever's, of the special edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings...
...employ the janitor of the building to make fires, etc." Any measure, which like this cuts off all competition, makes the price we have to pay too high, or, which is the same thing, the article which we pay for inferior to what it otherwise would be. At Sever's we are charged an extortionate price for our text-books, because the College destroys all competition by letting him alone know beforehand the text-books to be used. Now, it is proposed to establish a monopoly in the College buildings, the result of which will be that those who have...
...Harvard Manual is the name of a pamphlet printed in Springfield, containing a brief history of the College, a manual of the Law School, and a directory of the undergraduates and law students. It is for sale at Sever...
THOSE students who have looked forward to a sort of paradise in the way of recitation-rooms next winter will probably find themselves disappointed. Under the conditions of the bequest of Mrs. Sever the executors of her will may defer payment for one year, and circumstances have rendered it probable that such action will be taken; although it is hoped that some arrangement may be made whereby the College may come at once into the possession of the property. The new hall will stand probably on a line with Boylston, and will occupy the place once set apart...
...hold good for two weeks, they would be eagerly bought at Christmas also. It is a pity that something of this sort is not done. The main question probably would be, Who is to do it? Let our public-spirited correspondent start a list at Whiton's or Sever's, and we are confident he will find his fellow-travellers enough awake to their own interest to register their names in sufficient numbers ??? to obtain a considerable reduction of prices...