Word: blank-book
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...paper is in manuscript form contained in a little leather-covered blank-book, measuring six by three and three-quarters inches. The pages are filled with the close and somewhat difficult handwriting of the author, Ebenezer Turrell of the class of 1721. On one fly-leaf is the inscription "E. Turelli Liber" and on another the name of Andrew E. Thayer...
...celebration of the 250th anniversary of the college, and its recollections and thoughts of the past which it has disturbed, have brought into notice an old book in the college library, which few have heard of, and many never seen. It is a large blank-book which the class of 1798 prepared at a meeting of its members on the fiftieth anniversary of their commencement day. The preface written in bold hand writing sets forth the purpose of the book to be "to preserve in the college library, by permission, its autograph of every graduate living now or hereafter...
...idea of having a visitors' book originated with Prof. Webster in 1838, who placed an ordinary blank-book - quarto size - in Harvard Hall, which was then used as the college library. This book was used until 1849. The idea seems not to have been taken up by the library authorities themselves until 1858, when Vol. I. of the "Book for Visitors to Harvard College" was opened...
...hand grasped a new five-cent blank-book which he nervously pressed to his side...
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