Word: placards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...protest through your columns about the way in which the placard-boards of the University buildings are being used or rather mis-used? What is the average condition of the boards? They are covered from one week's end to another with the flaring advertisements of private firms. If a student, a team, or a society wishes to post an announcement, the notice can of course be added to an existing accumulation. But what good is the notice if an hour later it is to be buried under Smith, Jones & Co.'s unparalleled offer in the clothing line...
...Lampoon is the first one issued by the '99 board. The most interesting of the editorials deals with the choice of a site for Brooks House. The illustrations in the number are good, the centre page showing what the College Yard would resemble in case the Memorial Society should placard every interesting historical site with a memorial stone. "The Gypsy Moths," a take off on Flandrau's "Butterflies" is rather clever, though the general tendency of these stories is to make a ridiculous combination of words take the place of a real parody on ideas...
...Knoblauch, the Class Ivy Orator, was in the front ranks carrying his class's huge graduating cap of orange and black. Ninety-seven was led by Marshal J. W. Dunlop and his aids, E. N. Wrightington, Arthur Beale, W. L. Garrison, and Arnold Scott. A large white placard, on which were the words "What would Cambridge do without us?" was carried in the front rank. Between '97 and '98 came the feature of the procession-Old John with his donkey and cart mounted on a four-horse dray. Ninety-eight was led by Marshal Norman W. Cabot and his four...
...taken up by "Harvard Explorers in Central America," C. P. Bowditch '63, and "Instruction in Physical Geography," W. M. Davis '69. There is also an account of the Latin Play which furnishes the first satisfactory record of that success. The Latin programme is reproduced in full, together with the placard and the ticket used at the performances. A quotation from Professor Greenough's original prologue is given and all the noticeable features of the play are commented on. The article is by H. W. Haynes...
...Lately a placard has been posted up in the Library inviting subscriptions for a monument to Dante at Ravenna...