Word: bric-a-brac
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...town and board anyshere and everywhere. Their rooms are, as a rule, scantily furnished. Numerous swords line the walls, pipes lie here and there. A table rimmed with beer-stains, books, a few chairs, a bed, mugs of various sizes and fantastic devices-these constitute the principle bric-a-brac. The odor of stale tobacco prevades everything. Excepting as a mere resting-place the student seldom uses his room. HE is a Bohemian to the core. You may oftenest find him in a beer-shop, discussing obstruse, metaphysical problems through clouds of tobacco smoke, or at the kneipe...
...inartistic that finds its way among its pages. In reading matter the Banner probably excels the Index, containing besides the regular annual statistics, long lists of past occupants of the various college offices, editorships, etc. as well as of the holders of honors. The Princeton representative is the Bric-a-Brac, which is published every fall by the junior class. The last number is by far the best of any of the college annuals for 1882-83, abounding as it does in artistic and appropriate cuts nad containing a great stock of information of every discription concerning college and students...
Robert Grant, '73, has four taking rondeaux in the last Century bric-a-brac...
...more likely to have been their lodgings. How much time and money did they spend over aesthetic decorations and the extravagance of spreading themselves over a suite of three or four rooms, with soft rugs, easy-chairs, and all sorts of expensive things in the way of bric-a-brac, collected at home and abroad...
...indebted to the editors for a copy of the Bric-a-Brac, an annual publication of the junior class of Princeton. From cover to cover it is full of clever sketches and useful information on all departments of the college. The cover alone is very artistically treated and shows much of that talent which we have been wont to expect in each number of the Tiger. The first pages are devoted to a general catalogue of faculty and students, followed by lists of membership of the various literary organizations; then athletic records, clubs, commencement exercises and general Princeton news...