Word: card
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Duplicate lists should be written on separate cards, each the size of a postal card. The lists should not be written on paper slips, and must be written on one side of each of the cards used. Care must be taken to hand in both the duplicate lists, each being precisely like the other in all respects...
...first suggestion is to have the summons boy ragged up as a "buttons," from 3 1-2 to 5 p.m., so that each man could present his card to the official in charge as soon as he entered. In this way the cases of men on special probation could be given preference to those of intimidating freshmen. Another suggestion would be to have "checks," as in many tonsorial establishments. A man could go in at 3, take a check, see how many were ahead, and spend the intervening hour or so in profitable research at the library...
...obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general way about the cardinal points and the course of the sun and earth in the heavens. A mastery of this subject is given them, not by forcing them to commit the compass card to memory, but by telling them to find the direction of their own homes from the school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours with the pupils in the surrounding country, map in hand, and thus the meaning of the various geographical signs used...
Amusing samples of the wonderful work done by certain members of the university, in translating French and German into English, have recently been given in these columns. It will perhaps be as interesting to read the English which a leading German firm of booksellers has produced in an advertising card. The following is copied verbatim...
...Prayer Petition postal cards will probably be sent to the students for signatures. The matter should be heeded by all, for the end to be gained is worth far more than the slight work of signing and mailing a card...