Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent sale of autographs in Paris, 1,430 f. was paid for a bundle of letters of Rouget de Lisle ; a letter of Darwin's brought 55 f. ; of Schiller, 100 f. ; Wagner, 100 f. ; George Sand, 120 f. ; Paganini, 50 f. ; Beranger, 49 f. ; and Gambetta...
...successors to the Harvard Echo, we have every now and then received matter addressed to it, but. not until yesterday were we made aware that it had female contributors. Then we are received a letter from the founder of a "School of Industrial Art for Women," asking for the help of our late contemporary "so far as to publish the whole or any part of the enclosed article, that all women among your contributors, needing help. (and I doubt not there are many) may know of this opportunity and avail themselves of it." We thoroughly appreciate the efforts...
...frequently happens, either through misdirection or carelessness, that the wrong letters are left in a man's room, where they remain for a number of days without any effort on the part of the receiver to return them to the post office or to their rightful owner. We do not intend to blame the postman who discharges his duties in a perfectly satisfactory manner. When, however, we think of the large amount of mail which passes daily through his hands, there is little wonder that occasionally letters find their way into the wrong rooms. Besides, as we have said above...
...wonder how anybody could have been found to accept the office of watchman in those times, not so very remote, when beating the watch was part of a gay young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford, memtioned quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some...
...recently received a communication from a member of the sophomore class on the subject of hour examinations, and although we do not publish the letter in full we take the liberty of using it for a text upon which to make our comments. In the first place our correspondent asks whether hour examinations are necessary. We believe that strictly speaking they are not necessary, although we grant that they may be useful, as for instance, to enable an instructor to gain an idea of what his section is doing. But, asks our correspondent further, is there no other...