Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second number of the Tech has made its appearance. It surpasses all other college papers in the beauty of its cover; but there is some room for improvement inside. We do not think the illustrations as good as they should be. On the whole, however, the paper is much above the average...
...Varsity comes to us from Toronto, its cover adorned as usual with a cheap woodcut of a youth and a maiden, who have apparently just had a fight, and are standing back to back. Whether this is intended to be an allegory upon co-education we are not able to say. The articles, like those of most English college papers, are heavy and to us unentertaining...
...their appropriate places in a large sheet before him, which I afterwards found was a sort of testimonial that I, "vir juvenis ornatissimus," &c., had entered the University and was enrolled among its students. No. 3 asked me the same questions and a choice lot of new ones beside, covering the whole range of my family history, the answers to all of which he carefully wrote down in a large book. After him there was n't much left for the next man to say; he managed, however, to find one new question, and that was, what did I mean...
...told me that he feared my piety was growing lukewarm. I had lost the pristine unction. He pointed his eye right at me and said, 'Lamprey, with grief I have noticed in the last two issues of your little publication that your front cover, hitherto your redeeming feature, Lamprey, has displayed in its printed matter a latitude most unprecedented, and an obliquity never before attempted by decorous journalism...
...What, the Aberrate!" exclaimed the Ibex, catching a glance of the cover. "Oh! book of weird fatality! pray read it not! It's robbed our home of two sweet brothers. Had not it been, they had; but as it is, they...