Word: cards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lampoon has sent around postal cards asking students to subscribe for the second half year. All that is necessary to do is to sign one's name to the card and drop it in the post. Surely this is but little trouble, and no one ought to fail to aid the paper in helping to gain the required 200 subscriptions...
...days ago we received a card, with the inscription,-"The President and Faculty of Wellesley College at home, Monday, Feb. 23, 1885, from 2.30 to 5 P.M." An enclosed note explained all, we were invited to the Reception given to the Wellesley Jnniors, by the Faculty. As it was against our principles to attend recitations on a national holiday, it may be readily imagined that the time we took to make up our minds about accepting the invitation was very short. Accordingly, last Monday afternoon, shortly after two o'clock, we found ourselves at Wellesley station, and there our good...
...densely crowded every afternoon, and the need of a new and larger gymnasium is more apparent than ever. In order to have the means of accurately determining the daily attendance, Mr. Cuthbertson, the instructor, has provided a box, in which every one who uses the gymnasium places a card with his name written on it. It is to be hoped that when our liberal (!) and progressive (?) Board of Trustees find out how many men are daily compelled to exercise in this small and over-crowded space, they will take some steps toward giving us a gymnasium worthy of the university...
...catalogues, the ordinary book catalogue is the easier to conduct, but cannot, of course, be kept up to date. Our library published its last catalogue in 1830, when the number of books was about 40,000; in 1833 a supplement was issued, and in the same year a card catalogue was begun; but it was not until 1860, when there were 90,000 volumes in the library, that the present card catalogue was started. Therefore, if a book was published before 1830, it is safest to consult the published catalogue of that year...
...need of further sub-division, in which case the name of the particular branch is placed on the same line as the main heading-or simply as a section, when there is no sub-division required. The following will illustrate this principle, each group under law representing a separate card...