Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bought his clothes, gave him his very scanty allowance of pocket money, and attended to all his financial transactions, as well as to his moral training. Life at a university was exceedingly cheap. We instance a nobleman's son whose yearly allowance was forty pounds, this being expected to cover everything. There was indeed little chance to spend money, for the statutes of the college even went so far as to expressly forbid such extravagance as hunting or the wearing of "great muffs," both being symptoms of what the tutor called "the humorous lust of boastful expense...
Lost-a Stylographic, some time ago. Point cover has a slight crack in it. Finder please return...
Lost-a Stylographic, some time ago. Point cover has a slight crack in it. Finder please return...
...external appearance the new catalogue for 1883-4 contrasts rather unfavorably with that of last year. The new cover is different from those that the book has previously been bound in, and if no other edition is to be published, as we understand, it will prevent any person from keeping a uniform set. This seems unfortunate, especially since the new cover seems to be much inferior to the old in every way. Now that the publication has passed into the hands of the college, we notice one gratifying improvement, that the advertisements which used to mar the back part...
Lost-a Stylographic, some time ago. Point cover has a slight crack in it. Finder please return...