Word: typing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THIS is the Student's edition, corresponding to the "History of the Middle Ages," published in the same form. The whole work is compressed into one by no means unwieldy volume, of very clear type, the only omissions being certain parts of the less important remarks, and most of the notes printed at the foot of the pages. Altogether it will be found to be a very convenient edition, and hardly inferior, in point of matter, to the larger...
Almost any great creation of fiction can be made out a type of something or other. Kenelm Chillingly would appear to be the type of culture; though, in adding this to an already great array, we are shamefully conscious of taking our very little share in that too hot pursuit of types which is said to be a failing of the present age. Kenelm Chillingly is distinguished from other men by his love of independence, not an independence of order and proper restraint, but an independence of cant and conventionality; by his love for learning and contempt for pedantry...
...Marietta Olio publishes a column and a half from the Independent, bemoaning the superciliousness of Eastern college men, especially of the Harvard type...
...perpetrates it is half ashamed of himself, half convinced that he is doing something unseemly, and if you retain your gravity, he sees that you are wholly convinced, and respects you accordingly. I remember a person whom I once regarded as a superior being. He was a type of that class which George Eliot irreverently styles the "Divine Cow." In my acquaintance with him he had always looked with so profound and serious an air upon my little attempts at conversation, that I had come to revere him exceedingly. But one memorable evening my idol fell from his lofty pedestal...
...said that the students had to consult these tables two or three times a day for at least a week after the beginning of each term, and therefore they were tacked up in every room and remained there the year through; and suggested that by the use of small type, enamel, red and bronze inks, a Tabular View could be printed, not awkwardly large, yet with room for several advertisements, and in all respects superior to the flimsy sheets offered at the Dean's office. Upon so much of this business we have nothing to say. But about two months...