Word: print
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Miss Minna Caroline Smith, of the Harvard Annex, has just published a small collection of verse, entitled, "In Fruitful Lands and Other Poems." The book, of which we print a review in another column, is for sale at the Co-operative, Amee's, and Sever...
...Although in places the poetic sentiment seems to have been sacrificed to rhyme and metre and although many of the subjects can hardly be called new or said to be treated with any conspicuous originality, yet few will say that the author has made a mistake by going into print...
...News, which has annually about 176 issues, gives to its readers in the neighborhood of 1144 feet of reading matter, the Crimson with 212 issues has 1166 feet of matter, and the Princetonian with 100 issues has 920 feet. The Harvard Crimson, the Yale News, and the Princetonian print in the order named more matter in the course of the year than any other college paper. It is to be noticed, however, that while the Yale News and the Harvard Crimson surpass us in the total number of feet for the year, we exceed both of them in the average...
Here is a story of Prof. Sophocles which has possibly never been in print. The old Greek was catechising his class one day on the ancient history of his native country. "When did Theodophilus live?" he asked of one sophomore. "Before Christ." "Wrong!" shouted the professor. And then the next sophomore: "When did Theodophilus live?" "After Christ." "Wrong!" shouted the professor again. And then he repeated the question to the third student: "When did Theodophilus live?" "Neither before nor after Christ!" "You are right, young man!" said the professor. "There never was any such man as Theodophilus...
...turn to this latest trouble. I refer to the benches which are placed across the floor of the gymnasium during the winter meetings. The various officers of the day sit thereon, but we are able to "sit upon" them only in print. The motive for thus placing these benches on the floor is indeed praiseworthy; but the result is very sad, for these benches and their occupants obstruct the view of nearly half the audience. The wrestling of last Saturday, for example, could not be seen by those seated in the south end of the gymnasium, except from...