Word: bric
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...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...