Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number of copies of the small pocket handbook still remain for distribution and may be had by members of the University upon application...
...ambitions of many Harvard undergraduates." Let us see what is done to make the sport attractive. Fencing is a sport which requires a professional fencing master, and the lessons and equipment cost each member of the team about $50 per season, which he pays out of his own pocket, for the Athletic Association pays nothing towards coach or equipment. Thus out of 30 odd original candidates but a dozen remained--simply because they could not or did not care to assume this expense, an expense the members of no other team are obliged to bear. It is, then, no longer...
There are still a number of copies of the small pocket hand-books. These are published by the Phillips Brooks House Association and may be had upon request...
...four principal characters: Littlewit, a proctor; Busy, a Puritan; Cokes, an esquire of Harrow; and Overdo, a justice of the peace. The scene is laid at Bartholemew Fair, where the characters have gone for recreation. Cokes is buying toys and ballads, when Edgworth slips up and picks his pocket. Justice Overdo, who is present in disguise, is accused and placed in the stocks. Then the Puritan Busy enters, and, filled with fanatical zeal, tries to destroy the gaily-colored booths. He is also put in the stocks, where he is jointed presently by Waspe out-wits the drunken guards...
...Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will put poison in a baby's milk, pile garbage on his neighbor's doorstep, put his hands in his neighbor's pocket, when his neighbor is looking...