Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this mortification comes from knowing where Kars is. I put my map and newspaper in the waste-paper basket; and, study being out of the question on such an oppressive afternoon, I betake myself to my lounge and try to get a nap. I am having the most delicious doze you can imagine, dreaming, yet conscious that I am dreaming, when, after delivering a kick at the door that nearly breaks it in, the noisiest man in the class enters, slams the door, seizes me by the shoulder, and wants me to go to walk. I give a grunt which...
...college press is unanimous in the opinion that the present editors of the Era have succeeded in shaking off every trammel except that of overweening self-conceit, and that the value of the paper has been indirectly proportional to the success of its editors...
...Princetonian has completed its first volume, and a new board of editors has been installed. From the first, the Princetonian has been among the very best college papers. Confining itself strictly to subjects taken from college life, the paper has been bright, newsy, and, in tone, manly. There has been a tendency to assume a complete knowledge, on the part of the readers, of the matters discussed in the editorial columns, and the result is, that after reading a long editorial, one has not the faintest idea what is the subject under discussion. As cases in point we note...
...never clearer than after a Sunday's rest, and from such a date it always remains fondly vivid at annuals." We wish that words could induce the Courant to wrap itself in the mantle of its advertising pages; for the popular prejudice favors a cover on a college paper. For seven columns the inside pages of the paper present a barren waste of words unrelieved by a single paragraphic oasis...
WILL it do to say anything in a college paper about a class of musicians whom the College authorities, and especially the regent of the Yard, seem to regard with peculiar abhorrence, though why they should harbor such a prejudice would appear to the undergraduate mind to be due to the same cloudy wisdom that enwraps so many others of their proceedings. It may be that they fail to perceive the importance of the strains of the hand-organ as a soothing stimulation to study. It may appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling...