Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Library Bulletin has appeared. Since last June a large number of books has been added to the Library. Professor Norton continues his manuscript notes on the Authorities for the Life and Works of Michelangelo, and Mr. Winsor begins a Bibliography of the earlier editions of Shakespeare's poems. Professor Holden of the Washington Observatory contributes a list of books and memoirs on the transit of Mercury...
...Bowdoin dissertation; but they always inquire eagerly, "Are many going to write this year, and who do you think the examiners will be?" In midsummer they disappear, bury themselves in some hole for the rest of the vacation, and bring back in September a pile of drearily learned manuscript, the result of the summer's grind...
...pseudonyme. Emerson once won a Bowdoin prize, signing himself "A Son of New England"; but times have changed, and that would be thought shockingly provincial. Something which would hint in a noncommittal way of a gift to the College in future years would be effective. When you leave your manuscript at the secretary's office state distinctly that it is not an excuse from prayers; for several men have lost a prize through a misunderstanding on this point...
...this side and that, until we feel that it were indeed vandalism to tamper with anything so sublime. We bow with grave deference to its author, the complaisant editor who chuckles with delight at seeing in print more than a column of his nicely turned, choicely worded, carefully revised manuscript. We recognize in him a brother member of the press who sits high aloft beyond the pale of criticism, and casts his blunt weapons down at us. We are too greatly prostrated to attempt any palliation, and if we hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that...
...Faculty excluded Sophomores from competition for the Boylston Elocution Prizes. The gentleman who edited the Catalogue that year, and who ought to have recorded this fact, seems to have cut out the portion of the old Catalogue referring to these prizes, and to have pasted it into his manuscript. At any rate, no mention of the change was made, and as the example was followed in the succeeding Catalogues, we are still informed in the official Publication of the College that members of the three upper classes are allowed to compete. Whether this is fair, we leave to our community...