Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thing; but there his information ended. Stiggs, a somewhat different character, confined his thoughts and his talk to recent philological discoveries, and to certain occult events in mediaeval history. And the one man who seemed to have a little general information turned out to be the editor of a paper, so that, after all, he was talking shop...
...thoroughly false a report, coming from a paper of the standing of the Advertiser, needs something more than a mere denial. In regard to the admission of women, both the Faculty and the Corporation are decidedly opposed to any such innovation. The experiment of the co-education of the sexes is not at all likely ever to be tried at Harvard. The Boston papers have a habit of inserting - some of them occasionally and others regularly - items of news under such headings as "Harvard University Gossip," "College Notes," and so forth, most of which are either strictly personal or else...
...College of the City of New York has put forth an organ entitled The College Echo. It is not for such modest persons as ourselves to speak in any terms whatever of a paper which is capable of breaking forth in strains like the following...
...nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing to know how far his disciples have profited by his instructions, takes the high-school way of making them commit to paper the knowledge which they have received from him during the past three months. But on the whole there is a sublime indifference to such petty annoyances; more, indeed, than a casual observer would suppose, for it is a sacred law handed down from all antiquity, that he who does...
...observe the anxiety and curiosity with which the now admitted Freshman takes up his first special paper. On his appearance at lunch with what admiration is he regarded by those who have yet to pass the ordeal? And how the paper is passed from hand to hand with wonder; how eagerly he buys a scrap-book to preserve the precious relic...