Word: cards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...generally acknowledged among card players that few games possess the interest and advantage of "whist." Years ago whist clubs were among the most popular at college, but latterly they have either become insignificant, or have wholly disappeared. A few years ago an effort was made to organize a club, but with little success. It was proposed to have a regular club-room, with the proverbial tea served to players, and in short it was to be fashioned after the manner of the whist clubs so famous in London during the past century. The latter scheme was soon recognized as impracticable...
...people who will not advertise in a college paper because they think that the students are obliged to patronize them. A person who owns one of the leading hotels in Boston, who probably has more Harvard trade than any other man in Boston, when recently asked for a small card for a college paper, said, "You tell the editors of your paper and of other papers in the college, that they are sent to college to learn their lessons and not to edit newspapers." If he had been told that they had not been sent to college to spend...
...conductor of the night car between Cambridge and Boston will be richer one year from now than he is today. The reason is this : About one week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from...
...present this morning to the readers of the HERALD a card containing the events of the winter meetings of the Athletic Association...
After the reporter had waited about an hour, the valet returned and said that the poet was occupied with inspirations from the outer utterness, and could see no one. The reporter, without losing heart, again sent up his card, this time taking the precaution to write in one corner, "Of the inner brotherhood...