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...result has been the "ready-made- newspaper-a paper full of syndicated news (i. e., identical articles furnished from one source to a large group of papers), syndicated "features", even syndicated editorials made of "boiler plate" (articles set in type on the face of meta plates, a column in width), "matrices" (composition molds bearing the imprint of type, pictures, etc., into which it is only necessary to pour type metal) anc "patent insides" (sheets of newspaper printed on one side, with articles, advertisements, etc., furnished principally to country newspapers. On the blank side the editor places his own articles advertisements...
July 31 to August 5.--Professor J. Barrell of Yale University. "The Meta- morphic and Triassic Rocks of Western Connecticut...
...same. In 1800, a provision was added to the effect that the town of Cambridge could tax houses and lands outside the College bounds, except those improved by the president, professor of the theory and practice of physic, professor of theology, professor of mathematics, and the tutor of logic, meta-physics and ethics...
...romance called "Glamour," by the queerly named Meta Orred (Lippincott), has become a prevailing dinner-table topic. Since Poe and Monk Lewis, no writer has had a more powerful command of the gruesome in fiction. The author's real name has not been revealed...
More fun from the classics: Not long since the members of the New York Medical Club were summoned to attend a regular meeting at Dr. Paine's in the following classic style: "Sciens, Socialite, Sobriete." -Doctores! Ducum nex mundi nitu Panes; triticum at ait. Expecto meta fumen tu te and eta beta pi. Super attento uno Dux hamor clam pati, sum parates, homine, ices, jam, etc. Sideror...