Word: takers
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...torchlight enthusiasm for "ragging" signs, I write to say that the flag was prized not for its value as much as for its associations with one who has gone, it being an old war flag of the late rebellion. If this should meet the eye of a thoughtless taker, he would confer a great favor by returning it to 36 Trowbridge...
...used in taking notes as well as in other things. It is not necessary to write every syllable of a lecture, and in fact notes thus taken are well nigh useless in review, the kernel bearing too small a proportion to the husk; generally, however, a careful note-taker will sift out of an hour's lecture a supply of kernels sufficient to make a delightful repast...
...more strongly impressed upon him. To write a thing is almost to remember it; to have classifications and diversions, chapters and paragraphs in visible form on paper, is to give to them more decided shape in the mind, and therefore, greater possibility of being readily comprehended. The careful note-taker is a sort of artist, and in a page covered with paragraphs, and sub-paragraphs, a-b.c's and 1-2-3's he sees a picture, a closer scrutiny of which reveals to him the thought and life that it represents. Who knows the meaning of a painting...
...such a chance is given the most is made of it. This has been the case with the play of Prof. H. H. Boyesen, of Columbia. The fact that Prof. Boyesen, who is already well known in literature, should have ventured to write a play, seems to have been taker as a perfectly good excuse for all sorts of personal criticism of the author. Most of the criticisms of the play have been very favorable, whatever the critics may have said for the author. In commenting on the play, "Alpine Roses," the New York Times says...
...Columbia man was running around Holmes field Saturday looking for some one to take three to one on Princeton. When Harvard won he said he was happy and seventy-five dollars richer than if he had found a taker...