Word: card
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coughed, and exhibited my profile, - my profile is much better than my full face. The umbrella did n't seem to notice me; but with a wave of the hand around on the card catalogue, and on the shelves of books, she inquired...
...originators of that new score-card which made its first appearance at the Amherst game on Wednesday are to be congratulated on the invention of such a Chinese puzzle. Many were disposed at first to regard the placing of two or three names in spaces by themselves as an "exalting of the few at the expense of the many," but later on their minds were relieved. Happy thought! Perhaps the man who had mind enough to originate that card may be able to explain the "curve system" of marking used in German VII. and the lowness of the marks...
...case for the card catalogue at the Library will, it is hoped, facilitate a speedy delivery of books, and we are glad to see that one alcove has been turned into a miniature reading-room. The recently introduced method of getting out books is cumbrous and unpleasant; but of course we poor undergraduates are not expected to see its merits, as, indeed, we do not, though its faults are patent to all. The increasing interest in the study of history in this College has laid bare another defect in our Library. Of what works we have duplicate sets (Bancroft...
Williams.- The card-playing mania is rapidly spreading, and has already done great damage in East College...
Many of us have seen those round pieces of card-board, bearing on the obverse the illuminated motto, "Scratch my Back," and on the reverse a piece of sandpaper. We have often seen them, and have often made unsuccessful attempts to light matches on them; but I venture to say that it never occurred to the venerable Alumni when they reared Memorial Hall that the tablets and the carved wood-work would ever be used for a "scratch-my-back...