Word: placards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...managers of the freshman nine have hit upon the expedient of using so many tacks in putting up the posters for the Yale game that no freshman can steal a placard without taring it to pieces...
...that visitors are not admitted on Sunday, were only aware of the amount of annoyance they cause the officers, we feel sure that they would desist from this childish practice. We do not doubt but that the steward would furnish any student who wishes it, a copy of the placard, and we hope that in the future those who do wish them will apply at the office for them, not steal them from the door...
...editor and printer of the Kerry Sentinel, Ireland, have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment each for publishing an unlawful placard...
...office of the University Richter and get a card admitting me to the matriculation ceremonies, whenever they might take place. I found the office of this functionary without much difficulty, but was unfortunately too late to catch its occupant, it being already past his office-hours, as a placard on the door informed me. Early next morning, therefore, I presented myself again at he office and obtained a card for 2 P.M. the following day. "Slow but sure," I said to myself as I went home again, having finished my labors for that day. Alas! slow it certainly...
While speaking of this, it may be worth while to remind the Secretaries of the various associations and societies, who are in the habit of posting bills and notices, that any such poster or placard put on trees in the city of Cambridge will be removed by the police. The regulation of the city which forbids the "posting of any bills or notices on any property of the city without permission from the Mayor," though an old one, has not been strictly enforced until this year...