Word: presses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have hitherto refrained from saying any thing about the Harvard Union under its present management, because that body has been in the past so peculiarly the protege of the college press that we feared the mention of it had grown stale by repetition; but the recent debates held in Sever call for a word of the warmest approval. The Union has shown its undoubted right to the support of the entire University, and by the event proved the wisdom of its choice of a presiding officer. It is growing in popularity and in influence; and it may now be entirely...
...SUIPEE," said Dingus recently, "Why is the Columbia College Press like a performance at Tony Pastor's?" "Because a bird in hand is worth two in a bush," replied Suipee. "Wrong," said Dingus, "it's because it is composed of Actors and Spectators." Suipee swept the floor, Dingus was the broom. - Acta Columbiana...
...Crimson can account for the continued absence of this department only by a press of other matter momentarily, at least, more important. But for the future it hopes to note very regularly the sayings and doings of other colleges, incited thereto mainly by "Ephraim's" sensible suggestions as to the scope and office of the college press. In some respects, indeed, the Intercollegiate Press Association (to name something which never existed) might have proved a decided benefit. But the college editor, it must be remembered, has but a limited time at his disposal for the duties of his office...
...also occurred to us that there were other books than those prepared by Mr. Hudson on our shelves and in use in our Shakspere classes, - namely, the series edited with so much skill and accuracy by Mr. William J. Rolfe, of Cambridge, and also the excellent Clarenden Press manuals of Mr. W. Aldis Wright. And in the critical line we had always supposed that Dowden, Ulrici, and Werder over-topped the Magnate of Boston University. But it seems we are wrong - in Mr. Hudson's eyes. Now it is not only aggravating to have a book which...
...hundred copies of Osgood's fine edition of Etchings will be exquisitely printed on China paper by the University Press...