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...recent action of a certain Cambridge tradesman in discriminating against a member of the University on account of his color is, we think, to be condemned. We take this opportunity of publicly expressing our unqualified indignation and at the same time of assuring Mr. Lewis, that as his friends, we strongly resent any such treatment...
...look upon the insult offered to W. H. Lewis by a local barber as something out side of the ordinary case of trouble between a student and a tradesman. It is in one sense a private affair; in another it concerns the college at large. It is plain that the man who refused his accommodations to a student because this student was colored, did so because, in his opinion Harvard men themselves would draw such a distinction. In other words he catered to a snobbish spirit which he thought existed here at college. To outsiders, then, who may hear...
...worthy to represent the university in a great athletic event and to eat at the same table with other members of the team, is worthy of indiscriminate treatment by a Cambridge tradesman. But when such a man can command the respect of all who know him, whose character has always been borne out by his conduct, he deserves the impartial treatment of the students themselves. We have little to say of a man who will deny this, We are glad that in Harvard there is a just appreciation of a person's worth. When an insult is offered...
...manager of the eleven the advisability of taking a few hours from his valuable time to call upon various members of his class and soliciting subscriptions. The debt will not be removed by inactivity nor by the placing of a book for subscriptions upon the counter of a Cambridge tradesman. The manager is either neglecting his duty or is ignorant of just what is incumbent...
...Brine's contract as an affiliated tradesman ceases to-day, Oct. 20. No successor has been appointed...