Word: cardboard
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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...
...Yale class day programmes consist of pieces of cardboard deftly fastened together by a piece of blue ribbon, tied in a bow on the front. On the center of the front gage in very tasty and attractive form are the words "Yale '84," and below the words "Class Day," followed by the date. Inside are the programmes for both the morning and afternoon exercises, with the place and time at which they are held...
About one hundred members of the Institute of Technology visited the Globe Theatre last night. Each one had pinned to the lappel of his coat a piece of white cardboard on which were the words. "I am not A. W. Walker." These placards were caused by the speech of Mr. Walker in a previous meeting of the students, in which he declared that it would be no less a disgrace to the Institute than to himself if the students attended the theatre in a body. Ten policemen were stationed among the students to preserve order, but in spite of them...
...please Freshman: "Well, about as fine as I could get it, and still have it legible," as he shook out a little piece of cardboard from his coat-sleeve...