Word: names
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...their success in this field. An Aldine copy of Lucius Fiorus (Venetiis, 1521) in my possession exhibits a distinctness of typography and general excellence of appearance that for those infant days of the art are quite commendable. Of this class of printers, to whom we might allow the name of artists, we may instance the London Murray and a few of our own leading publishers...
FRESHMAN engaged in drawing up the little preliminary autobiography required at Dean's office, gets along nicely until he comes to "name of father," which he leaves blank. Sardonic Harris suggests, "T is a wise child...
...remarkably witty little poem, ridiculing the Darwinian theory. It is represented as having been "dashed off" in an afternoon. Any professional copyist might have "dashed it off" in less time. It is comparatively easy to "dash off" other people's poetry. We hereby "dash off" this Freshman's name from our list of contributors...
...schools; but somebody, on page 27, speaks of "the horrors of that Dominican Inquisition in which some of us once so innocently and unquestionably believed." This is hardly clear. Surely no one will presume to deny that there was an Inquisition, operated chiefly by the Dominican Order, in the name of the Popes, and that its proceedings were very horrible indeed. We are innocent enough to believe this; can the Owl instruct our innocence? Some one else declares that "the exercise of common-sense but for a minute" reduces the difference between Romanists and Protestants to a mere doubt respecting...
...name of Professor Byerly, Harvard, '71, appears several times in this paper. It is exceedingly gratifying to his many friends here thus to hear of his growing popularity through "his gentlemanly manners in the class-room as well as his interest in athletic sports." We also remember that he was not first in his class in scholarship alone, and wish him every success...