Word: chromo
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...fort at once, and, bracing myself on recollections of conquests in the 'Port, I began: "O most bewitching stranger, know that you have before you a youth who for five summers has sought a maiden like you. A youth who wants to find a girl untarnished by the chromo civilization of the 19th century. She must know nothing of germans, lawn tennis, or the opera; her mind must be as fresh - as fresh - as - as a freshly cleaned blackboard on which I shall stamp the imprint of my superior intellect. She must be a country girl, in fact. I will...
...chromo of the Editor-in-chief will be given with every subscription. No members of exclusive college societies will be eligible for editors. The paper will consider itself "the mouth-piece of society," whatever that may mean; and it is not true that it is to be conducted as the official organ of the Janitors. They will only be allowed to contribute occasional items...
...Bowdoin Square I boarded a Broadway car. At the bridge the conductor entered, and asked me if I was a Harvard graduate. I admitted that I was. Without a word more, he presented me with a small chromo. "Wh-what's this for?" I stammered. "Why, sir, all ride free now, and graduates of the College receive chromos. Every student is presented with a cabinet photograph of the Registrar...
Ploughing, mowing, raking, and other matches of kindred nature might take place on Jarvis Field, and in these contests wreaths of laurel and farming implements could be awarded to the victors, while to each of the vanquished, as a compensation for the disappointment, an elegant chromo and a copy of Vick's Floral Guide might be presented. Also the land in the rear of the Scientific School, if proper attention were paid to it, might be induced to become the abode of the sweet-smelling onion, the cabbage, and the beet, - the last-named, however, will not need...
...latest feature of the chromo gift business comes from Dexter, Me. They have a church there which gives a chromo to every new convert...