Word: circularity
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...think I am coming up to your place to be tutored for the coming examinations you are very much mistaken! In the mail this morning, every single member of a certain class of which I am a member except myself received from your institution of hire learning a circular letter advising him that a review in that subject would be held at a specified time this week. Incidentally, the letter also urgently advised the gentlemen to take advantage of this offer or they would live to regret it, but that after all is neither here nor there. The point...
...Committee has sent out about 850 envelopes, each envelope containing a life blank; a circular letter of instruction, a subscription card, and a return envelope. Men graduating at midyears are specially urged to return their life blanks at once. Those men who are engaged or expect to engage in winter or spring activities should not hesitate to fill out their life blanks immediately, as their future activities will be added by the Committee...
...third hall will open, available for students living in Morris and Hamilton Halls as soon as a hundred men have applied for regular board. A circular stating the price and the method of applying will be sent to these men in Morris and Hamilton tomorrow...
...Circular letters explaining the advantages of a home for unmarried mothers are lewd, lascivious, obscene; and hence are improper matter for the U. S. mails. So said two Federal courts in Texas, while sentencing Dr. John C. Dysart, proprietor of the Queen Anne Private Home at El Paso, Tex., to five years in the Leavenworth Penitentiary and fining him $2,500. Proprietor Dysart, it seems, had sent out some form letters, intended for physicians; but several of the letters fell into the feminine hands of El Paso schoolteachers. Irate, they called in the law. Proprietor Dysart was found guilty...
Browning once wrote a poem concerning "a grammarian's funeral; a Browning is needed on the Burlington. An erudite Vice President inscribed a circular containing the words, " . . . a tremendous area in which "IS" produced two thirds of the oats and corn . . . ", and a meticulous traffic, manager neatly omitted the "IS" and inserted "ARE". The disputants consulted the University of Chicago, then Northwestern, then Harvard, Princeton and Yale. After the weighty decisions were received and considered, the matter was settled by the toss of a coin and IS was the result. Not even five great institutions of learning can convince...