Word: bags
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vassar Bean Bag Association has arranged a game with the Smith girls. Bets are even: - Courant...
...trunk, striking bag...
...butter at dinner. The crime of smoking is visited with twelve hours of extra duty, while card-playing, or any such heinous offense, consigns the delinquent to prison for a month or two. The Barracks are inspected daily, and an inquisition officer can cause us much trouble. The clothes-bag, for instance, is probably doing duty as pantry and wine-cellar, and may contain a pipe or a pack of cards. For tunately, the inspecting officers remember the days of their youth, and give suspicious receptacles a wide berth...
...therefore, each appoint a committee of members and instructors, which, together as a joint committee, will supervise the matter and give the plan a trial? Let the committee receive and select a certain number of topics under which cuttings are to be arranged; for each topic provide a paper bag, in which the slips are to be filed, and arrange these bags in alphabetical order on the shelves of one of the alcoves in the library. Perhaps on many topics under which fewer slips are likely to accumulate, a more convenient receptacle would be the large stiff rectangular envelope...
...this plan. I would incidentally suggest that a selection of topics from among those suggested to forensic writers, might form a basis on which to start in choosing topics for slips. It might be of practical benefit in the several theme and thesis courses also, to prepare a bag for slips on every topic assigned to be written on. And lastly, under each label on the outside of each bag could be written cross-reference to other bags, and, perhaps, brief bibliographies referring to more formal works on the same topic...