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...shaky condition, naturally, but I should hate to see it closed up. The undergraduates don't know how things were before its existence, and how many thousands and thousands of dollars have stayed in the pockets of the students that would have gone to Sever and often Cambridge tradesmen. Let the Society stop and the prices will go up all around...
...same point that competition would have done. It has adapted the supply to the demand, and has proved of incalculable benefit to the industry. The spirit of the times leads to trusts. They sprung up in all directions as a natural growth. The opposition comes from small tradesmen who have been undersold by the lowered prices, and from demagogues who wish to make political capital. Any attempt at suppression would be a blow at modern trade...
This plan of doing the society's business proved so successful last year that it is to be pursued again this year and will meet, we trust, with equal success. No organization could have done more to bring the prices of Cambridge tradesmen within reasonable bounds than the Co-operative Society has done. It deserves aid and has the hearty support of the large majority of the students in college...
...speculating in Class Day tickets. They obtain the tickets in divers ways, and offer them publicly for sale. In this way numbers of thoroughly objectionable people get into the yard, and it was mainly to curtail one of the sources of supply of these clerks that the word "tradesmen" was used...
...word "tradesmen" was intended to cover the two limited cases above, and that is all. Perhaps the word was badly selected to express our meaning, but we thought it would be generally understood. The committee is acting solely with the desire to make Class Day as pleasant as possible, and to that end we ask that tickets be given to seniors' friends, and to them only. We do not wish to curtail any one's rights to give tickets to his friends, for that is what the ticketsare for. On the contrary we wish to make the enjoyment...