Word: cards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LILLIE M. F."P. S. - I have been in Boston only a day, or I should have sent out my card. I shall be delighted to see you after Class...
...started and looked suspicious as the N. C. broke suddenly off, and rose, saying, "Thanks for information. Don't trouble yourself about a card. Here's mine." And with the light step and smiling face of a true philanthropist, passed rapidly up one of the side streets near Beck Hall and disappeared. The T. F. seemed amazed, but this was nothing to the expression which came over his face as he read on the pasteboard...
WHEN an umbrella with the owner's name on it is stolen from Memorial Hall, one is consoled by the thought that it may have been taken by some poco who strolled into the umbrella rack; but when a student has a hat with his card pasted in it taken from a nail near his seat, and never returned, the chances are that some student has it. Now these students must be making a rich harvest this year, for at our table alone three hats and four umbrellas have been lost, - I should say stolen. I presume that these students...
THERE is an old abuse existing at the Library which needs Mr. Winsor's immediate attention; certain books are not allowed to be taken from the shelves. Occasionally, one's card is returned with an ominous-looking blue star marked on it, which means that the book will not be given out. The Librarian, in his Report, favors increasing the access of the students to the books; the abolition of this silly restriction on our privileges should be one of the first steps in that direction. There is no good reason for refusing a student the use of a book...
...attractions, while a thrilling novelty would be a favorite race at Amherst, - at once humane, athletic, and amusing, - i. e. a "Greased Pig Race." A "barrel of cider to the class winning the most races" would also be an incentive to individual prowess, and would doubtless prove a strong card...