Word: pointful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...different stores of Cambridge supply the student with almost every minor necessary of his life, but in one point they are deficient: we want in Harvard Square or thereabouts a first-class, clean barber-shop, with experienced workmen. That such an establishment would yield satisfactory profit to the owner there can be no doubt, while to us it would be a long-needed convenience...
Under the title of "Keep Warm," some useful hints are given on the requisite quantity and quality of winter underclothing, which, viewed from a practical point of view, strike us as the best we have ever seen. In a most pleasing style are the virtues of flannel and merino set forth, and the advantages of these two fabrics in various articles of apparel carefully detailed. We sincerely congratulate the fair Vassarites on that immunity from colds which Dr. Sanataire's bountiful flannel prescriptions, if regarded, must secure them...
GENTLEMEN, - In an interesting notice of the Gray Engravings, in the last number of your paper, the writer referred to my proposed scheme of photographing the collection. His statements were, I believe, correct, excepting in one point which nearly concerns the publishers; and for their sake I make this correction. The photographs, it was said, were to be on sale at a book-store in Cambridge; they may be, but not through College authority. Messrs. Osgood & Co. issue the photographs in their own style and at their own price, and sell them through any dealer they please; but in return...
...introduce physical as well as mental training into our educational system") "have succeeded only too well, the remedy is not to be found in condemning the boat, but in securing for the book its fair chance. And, by way of helping towards this, it may be well to point out that the athletic interest has been wise enough to employ one special lever which the intellectual interest has thus far overlooked, - inter-collegiate emulation...
...That point my darling's loveliness...