Word: tradesmen
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THEODORE HOOK'S old joke has been played upon a Cambridge student, whose room was overrun not long ago by half the tradesmen in town. Among other articles some silverware and a piano were delivered to him. The Journal thinks the hoax "cruel and childish...
...which the writer is especially severe, and that is, the insertion of advertisements in the body of the book, and the printing of one on the back of a page devoted to the societies of the Law School. If the editors intended it as a directory of tradesmen, then this insertion of advertisements is perfectly proper; but as the ostensible purpose of the book is to afford students information regarding societies, etc., it is as unpardonable as it is unnecessary...
...contempt. The degradation involved in a peaceful struggle for dollars and cents with your fellow-man is, however, hardly equal to the humiliation of a life-long squabble with your butcher and your tailor, and of a constant sense of your inability to meet the demands of those importunate tradesmen; and before you determine that you are too good to work, you will do well to assure yourself that you are provided with means enough to employ workmen...
...College exercises. These sheets should be distributed to the men in the several dormitories, and thus many an unsuspecting youth would be inveigled into buying the wares of the merchants. The plan was no sooner formed than executed; the students were not entrapped, but alas for the tradesmen! Morning after morning, I fancy, as each of these unfortunate people opened his modest "place of business," he turned his inquiring gaze upon the passers-by, as if seeking for a youth whose appearance betokened him as coming from the classic shades of the Square. After looking from sunrise until the mists...