Word: scintilla
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...print illustrations, but does that justify the exasperating fashion of pluming the advertising pagers with item of intercollegiate news, which in their place would be all very well? The great trouble with this number is that it is practically a corpse; hardly a sign of life, handily a scintilla of style, is to be found in the whole copy; and although the Illustrated may make an excellent "record," it can never be much as an influence among us so long as it entirely disdains the graces of style...