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Perhaps finger-print signatures are almost as ancient as those of the cross, plain and simple. Pirate stories abound with descriptions of contracts, signed in blood by solemn imprint of the fingertip--or, more often, of the "massive thumb". Tom Sawyer's famous compact has been an inspiration to many a romantic youth. And artists, from time immemorial, have used the finger-print as a personal signature on drawings and paintings. But in spite of so honorable an ancestry, the idea of compulsory finger-prints seems to be meeting with some opposition...
...cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint of a flabby character...
...subsidized institution, however, specially organized to deal with books of this character, can do much to advance scholarship by making possible the prompt publication and wide dissemination of the results of scientific research. Such a press can also advance the prestige of the University by issuing over its imprint learned works that may not need special subsides. These books would be accepted, without doubt, by commercial publishers, but they might fail to be connected in the public mind with the institution at which they were produced, did they not bear its imprint...
...Boston and Neighborhood," by S. A. Green '51 ex-mayor of Boston, is a book containing fac-similes of the following documents: The earliest American newspaper, printed in 1690; Hubbard's map of New England, 1677; the Rev. Samuel Willard's "Useful Instructions," 1673; the earliest Boston imprint, 1675; the earliest medical treatise printed in this country, 1678; the earliest book-eatalogue published in America, 1693; Bonner's map of Boston, 1722; the earliest print of Harvard College, 1726; a plot of Cambridge Common, 1784; Butler's map of Groton, Massachusetts, 1832. The print of Harvard College gives a view...
...painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers but none of them could give what Michael Angelo did, that is the imprint of a strong individuality, and accordingly none of them amounted to much...