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...members of the Senior class who will not be in Cambridge during the second half-year should arrange for their pictures at Notman's before leaving. The committee desires that all whose names come in the alphabet before the letter "T" should have had sittings by the end of this week, in order that every photograph may be in before the end of February...
...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
...Binding of the Book Beautiful." The second will be on the "Tooling and Decoration of the Book Beautiful," including pattern making. The third of these technical lectures, the last of the whole course, will be on the printing of the book. It will include the invention of the alphabet and of printing, and also the manufacture and use of the paper, vellum, and other materials. These lectures will be open to the public...
...those men whose names begin with letters from F to Z, postal appointments will be made, as usual, except during the mid-years, when no definite appointments will be made. Instead, all men whose names begin with certain letters of the alphabet will be asked to go to Tupper on certain days at their convenience...
...books and magazine articles on many subjects; he was a practical, influential, honest politician. His originality showed in his frequent use of words rarely heard from the mouths of others, yet well fitted in his effective and picturesque speech; and in his peculiar handwriting which almost constituted a new alphabet, yet which was consisitently a law unto itself and as legible as other current script when its letters were once learned; and in his vivid perception of the rich variety of the world about him, in which like an impressionist he saw bright colors unseen by duller eyes...