Word: bric-a-brac
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bric-a-brac," the college annual, has been delayed considerable this year; it will be out the latter part of this week. It promises unusual artistic merit and talent, judging from the proof sheets. The college catalogue also will be put on sale inside of a week. A few improvements will be noticeable...
...habits, would be quite in line with this sort of journalism, and would, doubtless, prove entertaining reading. Yet it might be that the subjects of this sort of descriptive writing would object. It is not everybody that cares to invite the world into his chamber to inspect his bric-a-brac, and chat over his personal peculiarities. For this reason, then, it is to be hoped that the "Globe" will change slightly the general plan of the next article on Harvard "home life" which it sees fit to publish. Let the rooms be described and illustrated, by all means...
...members of the CRIMSON board are all virtuosos. We are all fond of old china, of bric-a-brac, of everything quaint, curious and antique. We take delight in rare old editions of rare old books in rare old bindings. We even enjoy rare old jokes, and racy remarks. We do not object to having the Advocate and the Lampoon fling their merry jests at us, for they must fill up their columns, and their jocose sayings are not able to hurt. But we should urge a plea to the Lampoon to vary the style of its lively quip...
...college receives with due appreciation the first of the new edition of summons cards. Beautiful in fresh type, stiff cardboard, and correct heraldry they will form a welcome addition to the bric-a-brac of many an abode of study. Perhaps we ought to rest content with the state of excellence which the cards have now reached, yet we cannot refrain from the hope that eighty-nine may some day be summoned by a billet blazing in crimson and gold, and borne by a boy in buttons...
...addition to the ornaments of Snodkin's room, which I have mentioned, were things of more worth and beauty, if not of more interest. Bric-a-brac of every sort, photo, paintings and so on, adorn the walls, which are literally covered from ceiling to wainscoting. Among them a piece made from the uniform worn on November 3, a wonderful combination of plug hat, torch, uniform and "black bottle...