Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...publication of the Portfolio was started by Mr. Wiggin in 1890 and was continued by him until his graduation in 1892. He was then puzzled as to what disposition he should make of the book. He considered presenting the book to the class of '93 with the intent that it should be given annually to the incoming Senior class; but being anxious for the continued existence of the book, Mr. Wiggin feared to make the presentation, feeling that the interest of the class or some succeeding class for this publication might not be great enough to keep it alive...
...plan finally hit upon was that of letting the Portfolio out from year to year to some one identified with college for a rental sufficiently large to insure its being brought...
...recent action of the Photographic Committee of the Senior Class in taking into its own hands the publication of a book similar to the former "Portfolio" is a very commendable step. There was a time when the "Portfolio" and the "Index" were regarded as undergraduate publications; when they were handed down from year to year by a member of one class who published either book to a member of the follwing class. The transfer was made upon the payment to the former student who had been the publisher during his Senior year of an amount equal to that which...
...that book is concerned; though we hope it will realize that there is a possibility of affording some man a chance to earn his way by publishing the book. The Photographic Committee of the class of Ninety-eight has put an end to the same practice of renting the "Portfolio." Though the same rental is still paid the benefit now goes to the class and not to an unscrupulous person who had no right to receive such profit...
There is yet another publication which fills no distinot place whatever and which is run much on the same plan as were the "Index" and the "Portfolio"- the "Club Book." There seems to be no way of supplanting this publication except by including in the book to be published under the auspices of the Senior class all that is now contained in the "Club Book," and by a refusal on the part of every undergraduate to have anything to do with the publication of that book. By doing this the representative college publications will receive a more hearty support...