Word: inks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...These rules probably have some raison d-etre. But what possible reason is there in prohibiting men from carrying their bags within the library? If a man goes to the library with a bunch of notes and loose papers, with perhaps some pamphlets and books of his own, with ink, pens, pencil, eraser and so on, all of which he intends to use in connection with his work in the library,- why is he forbidden to bring a convenient receptacle for such articles? Why is he compelled whenever he enters the library to inconveniently dispose of these various articles...
...place in this connection to suggest that the more general and not less careless habit of throwing ink all over the reading-room floor be abandoned. A few spots on the floor seem to invite more and some places are nearly black. A very little care would remedy this had habit...
...Somers of 5 Park street has issued a small book on men's dress, giving all the latest "fads," as adopted by the correctly dressed man, "up to date." It contains pen and ink sketches of the principal garments by well-known artists, and is well worth perusing by any one interested in the subject of clothes. Price 25c. each to be issued semi-annually...
...deliver to the Librarian, on or before Monday, May 27, as many examination books as there are subjects in which he is to be examined, with his name and one of the subjects written on the outside of each. The blue books will be required to be written in ink. No one will be permitted to take into the examination any book or paper of any description...
...feather is Saxon, but when it changes to a plume for the lord, or a pen for the learned it becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar-pen, ink, paper-all point to foreign origin, and one of them carries us back to the papyrus that waved its slender stems over the little river of Syracuse...