Word: paper
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
...Friday, December 6, and on Monday and Wednesday, December 9 and 11. They will be more technical in character, and will relate respectively to the "Forwarding and Binding of the Book Beautiful," "Tooling and Decoration," and "Printing," together with a few suggestions on the manufacture and use of paper, vellum...
With regard to the requirements in advanced Latin, the change comprises the omission of one of the three parts which have heretofore made up the examination paper. This part, which is marked (b) in the University Catalogue for 1906-7, reads: "an examination (which may include translation) on Cicero's four speeches against Catiline and the Defence of Archias; with questions on the subject-matter, the life of Cicero, and his position in literature." Two years' notice will be given of any change in the regulations as they now stand...
...optimism that is fortunately perennial. The more "he thinks it over, the more Lampy thinks we will win." We often find that the prophecies of the humorist are the true ones, so we have the right this time to believe in him. The two long poems in the paper, the Kipling parodies, are well done, as were the verses in the last number on the graduates who do not get seats. The Lampoon is often the most efficient exponent of undergraduate opinion because its meaning is unmistakable and because it recognizes ridicule as the best medicine to cure abuses...
...appears that an error was made in my communication to you last week. The clipping which appeared in that discussion was handed to me by a friend, who said it had been taken from the Herald. I therefore credited it to that paper...