Word: vellum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long been known as a publisher and printer of the highest grade of privately printed work, and the profits of the publication will go to the Harvard Adcocate. The edition will be limited with reference to the number of advance subscriptions, and each copy will be numbered. Copies in vellum and full calf will be made up to order. Prices will be $1.25 paper, and $1.50 cloth...
...Museums, the Fitzwilliam is the chief, noted for its fine collection of engravings, while many a fine piece of statuary can be found in its halls. The Senate House, dreaded by the incoming freshman, and the University Library, with its half million volumes, among them an original MSS on vellum of the four Gospels and the book of Acts of the Apostles, next meet one's attention. The largest, if not the finest college is Trinity, which claims to be the largest in Europe. Ex tending on both sides of the street it is entered through the fine King...
...over the country, and is especially growing strong towards the West. Thousands of dollars are spent annually to carry elections in the interest of liquor men, and on almost every corner discussions of temperance questions arise, the warmth of which reminds one of the old slavery wrangles in ante vellum days. Various laws are now presented in the different states, some tending to protect the business and others looking towards its abolition. It is safe to say that never before were there so many points under dispute upon which temperance men should be prepared to meet their opponents...