Search Details

Word: pens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Edison Electric Pen is being tested by the Faculty with a view to its purchase for the copying of college documents, examination-papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...care to pursue the subject further. In his desire to say something disagreeable the writer has overstepped all bounds of truth and propriety. It is to be hoped for his own credit that the next time he is troubled with a bilious turn he will refrain from using his pen, and in conclusion I may remind him of the appropriate proverb, "A little pot boils over easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HASTY CRITICISM. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

...article on "English and Etiquette" there is quoted from the College Pen (the publication of Neophogen) this passage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

...spend their leisure moments in dipping into this interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty have been enumerated, the corps of College officers should be swelled by such names as those of the Superintendent of the Gymnasium, an Assistant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEOPHOGEN-ISMS AT HOME. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

...word more, and I have done. Take an interest in literary matters, and write for the College Pen. Nothing gives so much eclat to a man's entree into society as a little reputation as a scribbler. The Pen is read everywhere, and anything you write will have a large and appreciative audience. Do not, however, let them publish the addresses you deliver before the literary societies. They may be well enough in their place, but entre nous, they smack a little of the Occident. Besides, it is well not to identify one's self with one's companions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A FRESHMAN AT NEOPHOGEN. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next