Word: bound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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America is bound to be famous in one way, at least. The latest novelty among English publications is a book by Leo Engel, entitled "American and Other Drinks." What charming reciprocity! Bret Harte and "American Drinks" represent our country in England, while England is represented among us by checked clothes and Oscar Wilde...
Nearly four thousand pamphlets from the Cornell library have been sent to England to be bound...
...often more led to complain of than rejoice in the freedom of selection allowed them. For, where there is no guide or support, but each is left to his own responsibility, those who would be most eager for liberty of choice if they had to follow an iron-bound course, often become clamorous for direction when this liberty is granted them. The Johns Hopkins University solves the difficulty in the case by assigning to each student "some member of the academic staff, to whom he will go for advice and assistance, and through whom he will present to the faculty...
...diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...
...annotated French edition of "Aeschylus," well printed in 231 pages and bound, costs only one franc (about twenty cents) in Paris. Now how much would an unbound, poorly printed edition cost at a certain book-store in Cambridge...