Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News is in error, we think, when it ascribes to us a larger board than it possesses. It is the custom of this paper, at least, to publish in its list of retiring editors all those who have been connected with the paper during the half year previous, and this custom, of course, swells the number of editors to a considerable degree. In reality, our editorial board has consisted of nine literary editors who have done the entire work of writing the paper, while for the News there are ten men who perform the same work, according to their...
...Harvard," says the News, "we understand there is no attempt made to run the paper in a remunerative way, but whatever surplus remains at the end of each year is put into a supper." This is good. For the benefit of the News, we would say that this is the first year that this paper has ever come out anywhere near even with its expenses, and that instead of a surplus for a supper, we have hitherto been forced to pay an assessment for our debts. We generally get the supper, but we pay for it ourselves. The News should...
...class of boats, unless it be the shell, is this consideration of so great importance. The canoe must be exactly fitted to the canoeist in order that the maximum of speed and comfort may be attained. It is a matter of taste whether the canoe shall be constructed of paper or wood, but if two canoes of the same dimensions are placed side by side it will be observed that the paper one is much lighter, stiffer, and of greater strength. Its lines are firmer and owing to the fact that the paper skin is varnished over its waterproofing...
Such great care is usually inconvenient to exercise. As to the make of canoe to purchase, it may be said that for wooden paddling canoes, the Stella Marries, Racine, Shadow and Princess, are popular ; while good paper ones are built by Waters of Troy. Good canvass canoes are the Osgood's folding, and Canadian canoes. This brief summary includes only a few of the standard makes...
...Honorary Degrees" is the title of a paper by ex-President Woolsey of Yale which will be published in the July Century...