Word: bounding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Deturs will be awarded to men who have won positions in the first group and who have never before received a detur. These deturs are books purchased with the income of a fund established by Edward Hopkins in the seventeenth century. They are bound in red leather with the seal of the University stamped in gold on the cover...
...delivered the second of his lectures on the printing, binding and decoration of books, last evening. The lecture was of a technical nature; the lecturer confined himself to the work of the "forwarder" or binder, and described the various processes by which the printed sheets are converted into the bound, but undecorated book...
...live in a constant condition of mental change, not always mental progress, but if the desire back of the change is good the upward striving in its reaction on the mind is bound to have a good effect on character. Will power is more enduring and capable of achievement than the power of the tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough...
...connection with these lectures, a small collection of books handsomely bound in colored leather and vellum, printed and decorated under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's personal supervision, are on public exhibition in the Treasure Room of Gore Hall, together with a few select works on book-binding and its history. This room will be open every afternoon during the next ten days from 2 until 5.30 o'clock...
...lectures on books last evening. He outlined the preparation of a wellfinished book at the present day, and gave a detailed exhibition of the work of printer, "forwarder," and "finisher." Among other things, the lecturer explained the use of the sewing-frame, the method of covering the quires when bound, and, finally, the process of decoration by means of metallic stamps applied by hand...