Word: ink
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regards the manner. In the first place, the order which brings the Natural History Society between the Hasty Pudding Club and the Pi Eta, and which places the Law School clubs among college associations is highly objectionable. Again, the record of the race with Yale is printed in crimson ink. If the victory of the crew calls for such notice, certainly the Hartford game deserves to be honored in the same way; but we are of the decided opinion that the page would have looked much better if it had been printed uniform with the rest of the book. While...
Take, again, the reportorial department. The familiarity with many subjects and the ability to take up any subject, both of which things a college education teaches, are of the greatest value. Then, too, a college graduate generally has an idea of "what to leave in the ink-bottle," - a point which is coming to be better appreciated...
...philosophy, he pronounced it mere twaddle. Of course this ended our conversation on philosophical topics, and whatever else I attempted to remark he took pains to deprecate. At last a little girl of the family came in complaining that she wanted to open a bottle of colored ink for her drawing, and no corkscrew could be found to fit. I offered to try to open it with a common screw and a string, as I had seen a friend do here at college. I tried and succeeded. "Thank you," cried the little girl. "O, how nice!" said her older sisters...
...students are requested to use black ink or pencil in taking notes...
...thou" referred to was the first visible embodiment of a type which had previously been dimly comprehended. It must be a satire on some Yale instructor. No doubt some Yale man wrote it and lost it on his visit here with the Nine. It's written in blue ink, - of course a Yale man wrote...