Word: item
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...capital s's in their fonts far below the demand. "Arnold's father spent Sunday with him." Our sympathy for Arnold has no bounds. "Miss Daisy Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday." A daisy on a hill-side is a picture that appeals to our most poetic natures. This item for a time completely absorbs our thoughts, until of a sudden we read with greatest surprise that "Miss Harris has a class in painting." The "fast express (limited)" brings us home with unpleasant haste. A local that is western becomes vividly eastern...
...shock we received from the last item is diminished but little, when it dawns upon us that the item was merely a tribute to western co-education. We find other tributes of a similar nature, for example, "MacPherson has a girl." "Adams called on Miss Harbrook Tuesday evening and was late in getting home." "Bronson spent last Sunday in Marshville. Bronson is spending too many Sundays in Marshville." "Hunter has a girl," etc., etc. All these items are refreshing. We read them, throw aside the western journals, lie back in our armchairs and think until we fall asleep. Then...
...college men to whom it must be laid, and even if it is not quite certain that they are to blame it makes such a very spicy article for a paper. Is it not a proof on the face of it, of its unlikelihood, that such an item is copied all over the country? People think it is strange - it is surprising - no doubt it is, but does any of them think that its strangeness bears, maybe, some witness to its unlikelihood, that the astonishment which they feel at reading it is perhaps a proof of its exaggeration? No. They...
...Yale News grows more amusing with every issue. In its item column of Thursday it gravely stated that "Clarkson, the pitcher for the champion Chicagoes, is a Harvard graduate," and that "The Princeton sophomores posted their usual proclamation, Saturday, forbidding the freshmen from carrying canes until after the freshman base-ball game with Harvard...
...plan of holding fall class races has not been received with any marked signs of satisfaction by the college. It has many bad points which can hardly be overlooked. In the first place the item of expense comes into prominence. The accounts of the several class crews all go to show that the burden of crew expense is already sufficiently heavy. Then the question of training demands attention. It certainly seems that. with the short time at hand for preparation, the proposed races would be of but little more account than a scratch race on a large scale. With these...