Word: card
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST. - Friday morning, 25th inst., a Boston Public Library Card. Will finder kindly leave at Leavitt & Pierce's or for ward to address on the card...
...glad that card-playing is not prevalent at Bates. Such an operation may do for gamblers and black legs, but for honest, intelligent young men, it is not the thing. It may do for the starved in soul and intellect, but college students should find some amusement better fitted to their station than shuffling a pack of greasy cards. - Ex. And this too, from a Western college paper...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I see by a recent issue of the CRIMSON that you advocate the card system in the dormitories, by which a stranger entering a building for the first time is enabled to find a friend without the least difficulty. We all know the trouble and vexation which a man has to undergo at present in searching for the room of an acquaintance. We on the lower floor especially are continually bored by requests from utter strangers "to have the kindness to tell me where I can find Mr. So-and-So." Of course we are civil enough...
...have received several communications advocating card directories in our dormitories. One communication suggested in addition the placing of boxes beside the cards for the reception of letters and visitors' cards. We sympathize with the first step of the reform, as set forth by our correspondent of to-day, but not with the second, the boxes. Even to college students a card directory would be a great convenience. We frequently wish to look a fellow up, whom we know rather well, have met on many occasions, but we haven't an idea where his room is. Or there is a friend...
History 2. I will hold a short seminar Wednesday evening at 7.30, when I will go over the papers for the last few years. Send postal card if you wish to come. J. W. Dalzell, '79, 15 Appian...