Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interference in a matter which, strictly speaking, is none of our business, we would suggest that a proctor be delegated to sit up nights with the bell, and see that it does not throw of its bed clothes. Nay, further, we would be pleased to start a subscription paper for providing the ancient annunciator on Harvard Hall with hot "Toms and Jerrys," and other comforting liquids, during the continuance of the present cold snap. We trust that the college will chime in with our sentiments, since we are trying to ring in no scheme of personal advantage. Our columns...
...next number of the Advocate will be of extra size, containing 46 columns of reading matter, and will be made up wholly of contributions from past editors of the paper. All but three of the classes since '67 will be represented. The number will be for sale at 5 o'clock Friday...
...next number of the Advocate will be issued on Friday. The '87 board will assume control of the paper after this date...
...file of the Nation is to be found a letter from one of the instructors of our French department, which was written to that paper for the purpose of showing with what ingenuity the sub-freshman overcomes obstacles which would appear insurmountable to a mind of ordinary ability. Many of the men whose genius flashes out in the following quotations are now in the junior class, - or possibly in the sophomore class, - for the examples of wild conjecture given below were called forth by a paper in entrance French which was given to candidates for admission a couple of years...
...mistranslations given in the last number of the Nation brought to my mind some ingenuous mistakes which I noted while correcting the French paper set for the Harvard admission examinations last June. The 500 or more papers which were written contained every variety of mistake, but there were two sentences which were the special stumbling-ground. "La pauvre femme, sentent la raison de son mari, no bougea et se contenta d'ecarter un peu son rideau pour voir sortir, etc., gave rise to "fearing for the reason of her husband," and "appreciating the reason of his marriage," and the words...