Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Precocious children - "I know," said the little girl to her elder sister's young man at the supper table, "that you will join in our society for the protection of little birds, because mamma says you are very fond of larks." - [Philadelphia Bulletin...
...potato is a susceptible vegetable. It is constantly getting mashed. - [Commercial Bulletin...
...fourth number of the Harvard University Bulletin has been issued...
...need of the college at the time; its fault was, that it more than supplied that want. Now that that paper has died, the same want again exists, after having been once partially satisfied. That want is not now, we believe, by any means adequately supplied by the University Bulletin. An official publication must necessarily be of too narrow and technical a scope to serve as an organ and exponent of Harvard before the public. For it is probably too much to ask that it assume anything like a literary character so as to appeal to general interests...
...official circulars of Oxford and Cambridge Universities were, we believe, taken as models for the Bulletin; and of all dreary reading, they afford the dreariest. Aside from the minor consideration of precedence, we do not, after all, see why it is not possible to enlarge the Bulletin so that it may become a suitable organ of the university. The official circulars of the Johns Hopkins University, containing extensive synopses and reports of work and results reached by their investigators, as well as legal announcements, is certainly an interesting and successful publication; and Harvard should not longer remain in need...