Word: brands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...main contents of the visitors room are huge folios which are "not to be handled without permission. "By way of relics, there is a brand new book carved out of a piece of wood taken from the Washington Elm. On the back is a picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature...
...With his brand new diploma...
...surprised that we speak in this way, for some have sought to turn over the leaves of this book in the style of the blase dilettante and brand it forever with such meaningless phrase as we have before mentioned. A careful student, however, of the work, and one who is willing to see its beauties as well as to underscore its faults, will recognize in the first poem, "Exeter," many passages that are excellent and far above the average of undergraduate effusions...
...Orient rejoices in the fact that a brand of cigars has been named after the college...
...Drury seems partial to the college press; his latest brand, a choice cigar of unadulterated "Vuelta Abajo" stock, he has named the "The Harvard Lampoon." They draw well, have an excellent flavor, and will, it is to be hoped, soon rival their namesake in popularity...