Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...congratulate the '89 board of the Advocate on its energy and good taste as shown in the improved appearance of the paper. The change from a black and white to a crimson and white cover, the absence of the dividing line between the columns, and the new arrangement both of prose and verse all go to make up a very attractive-looking paper. Old Mother Advocate stepping out of her ancient crinoline and poke bonnet, and arraying herself in the garments which modern fashion demands, presents a very pretty and graceful picture, and she need not blush at it either...
While we are congratulating the Advocate, let us not forget to say a word or two about ourselves. We have purchased a better stock of paper and an entirely new set of type, and in a few days we expect a new heading for the front page. The issues of the past two or three days have been much better typographically on account of these changes. In justification to ourselves, we wish to say that both the paper and the type were ordered before the appearance of that barbed arrow cast at us by the '88 board of the Advocate...
...Alfred E. Lee contributes a very scholarly paper on "Central Ohio seventy years...
...first number of the new volume of the Advocate comes out to-day. The paper has passed into the hands of the '89 editors and they are at least progressive, if one may judge from the changes which have been made. The quiet, staid Advocate has blossomed out with a crimson title-page, and the innovation is a very happy one. The lines around the pages and between the columns have been taken out, and the articles end across the page instead of filling up one whole column and a fraction of the other. The verses are honored with...
...University, a weekly periodical devoted to the general interests of all the higher seats of learning, wishing to call forth college talent, has offered $300 for the two best speciments of English composition. There are two prizes of $250 each, one for the best prose paper and the other for the best production in verse. Only students in regular standing of American colleges are allowed to compete. A very commendable feature is that the contestants are not confined to a given set of subjects, but are allowed to choose congenial topics. All matter must be sent before...