Word: signer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This wilful misuse of the methods provided to secure tickets for graduates and undergraduates is a despicable violation of trust. The management offers to every college man an opportunity to get seats for himself and his friends, and every signature on a blank means that the signer accepts the favor as such. Just how any gentleman can distort that privilege of application into a license to fleece his friends by compelling them to do without seats or pay extortionate prices for them, it is difficult to understand. Some methods of making money are forbidden by law and called dishonesty. Others...
William Ellery, 1747, Signer, Declaration of Independence...
Robert Treat Paine, 1749, Signer, Declaration of Independence...
Many of the students seem to think that by signing the petition for a new dining hall they will give up their right to a place in Memorial Hall next year. This is not so, for the petition distinctly states, that the signer wishes to board at a place similar in price and management to Memorial, only in case he cannot obtain a seat in Memorial Hall. Thus by singing the petition no one will be obliged to leave the existing association...
tings. Through false representations he has already induced several men to sign their names in "an address book" which later has taken the form of a legal contract binding the signer to the amount of $50.00. The paper is tampered with after it is signed by the would-be purchaser...