Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stars in our Flag," a brief paper by Schuyler Hamilton, is an attempt to dissipate idle stories and to trace the adoption of the thirteen stars to its original source...
...must have a police force of proctors to spy upon us during examinations to see that we don't cheat, converse, or otherwise misbehave ourselves, why cannot we have detectives endowed with a little delicacy of feeling? At an examination yesterday, the man in front of me finished his paper about three-quarters of an hour before the time was up. Immediately a proctor strolled along, his boots creaking like the doors in Sever, took up the blue-book, seated himself on the desk, and proceeded to read. Of course his superior knowledge found flaws in the book...
...ideal of things which are at trainable, is a paper which is honest, which does not palm off on its readers advertisements as news matter, which is not blindly partisan, which does its best to improve its readers, and does not pander to its lowest tastes in order to roll up a large circulation...
When I asked the English foot ball expert something about the number of teams he pulled a weekly Birmingham paper out of his pocket and showed me a full page devoted to summaries of games that had been played since the issue of the previous week. There were clubs by the score, and the number gave one something of an idea of the interest in foot-ball in England...
PHILOSOPHICAL CLUB.- There will be a meeting of the club to-night at 7.30 at 41 Weld. Mr. Loeser will read a paper...