Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...volume as the Register is very great. The men who solicited advertising for the old Register and the Club Book found it increasingly difficult to get advertising, and eventually were forced to prove that it was advantageous to the Boston business men to advertise in the books. This proof they endeavored to give by making what is known as "trade ads." The merchants agreed to take space in the publication and credit the publication with the value of the ads, in trade. For instance, if the advertiser agreed to take $25 or $15 for space in the Register, the solicitor...
...over. Especially in the matter of printing were the editors still pioneering. One of them writes: "The paper was then printed by H. E. Lombard in the loft of a wooden building in Central square, "The Post.' Two of us had to go each midnight to read proof. As the cars from Boston ran only once an hour after midnight, and by horse-power, we were usually obliged to walk back to our rooms." Lombard continued to print for the CRIMSON, with the exception of one day, until 1893, when the contract was given to the Crimson Printing Company, consisting...
...composition. Though not subservient to popular tastes, he is eminently practical, urging his students to write with a view to a New York production. The work of such of his students as Edward Sheldon, D. Carb, R. E. Rogers, J. F. Ballard, Florence Lincoln, and Elizabeth McFadden is sufficient proof of the efficiency of Professor Baker's instruction and a justification of the "47 Workshop." The "Harvard School of Playwrighting" seems to be an accomplished facts...
Those men who have had their pictures taken must choose the picture which they wish used, at once. All men who had their pictures taken before today will have to return proof by Monday, or that picture will be used which seems best to the committee. Part of the material has already been sent to the engravers, and more will be sent on Monday...
Tomorrow evening there will be a regular meeting of Dr. Campbell's Bible Class in Brooks House at 7 o'clock. At the same hour there will be a meeting of the course in "Essentials of the Christian Faith" led by G. L. Aldrich on "Messianic Prophecies, an insurmountable proof of divine revelation...