Word: sheets
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would like to comment on the extreme weight of its articles (O Heavens! how heavy they were); to praise the judicious arrangement of the paper, putting its best column (the Exchanges) near the beginning; to - But really we have n't any more time to waste on this sheet of "Our Boys and Girls...
...Confound the Advocate!" thought I; but I restrained my feelings and proceeded to set forth the merits of the sheet I represented in the best possible light. The minds of my listeners did not seem satisfied with the prospect of frequent supplements, reports of athletic meetings, etc. They were evidently looking for some real intellectual treat...
...world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will be taken mainly from Bell's Life, Sporting and Dramatic News, Clipper, Turf, Field, and Farm, and the reliable sheet before mentioned. Thus we hope to present to our readers a bird's-eye view of amateur athletic sports of every place and of every kind...
...experiment in daily journalism has been made at Yale. The Yale News is a sheet of four pages, which measures nine inches by six, and one of which is given to advertisements. "Our price (5 cents) is somewhat exorbitant," say the editors, who modestly keep their names in the background, "but it will be lowered as soon as we are assured of our financial support." In justification of their "innovation" they urge "the dulness of the times and the demand for news," which latter commodity they apparently propose to manufacture, inasmuch as the Record and Courant are supposed to publish...
...mean time I thought I would sit down and write a sheet or two to put forth my happy idea to the college world...