Word: stamps
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Because the quintessential stamp, which his works possess by virtue of the curiously rhetorical style and of the magic symbolism of sound, cannot be in any way represented in the English language, as was shown by Professor Kuehnemann, who read two highly impressive passages from "Zarathustra," it is absolutely necessary to be able to approach these ideas in their original medium of language...
...nature in any other college, or for that matter to any "funny paper" in general. One realizes perhaps that jokes are being cracked at the expense of college life, but of what college life one gets no inkling, unless indeed it be just that vagueness and lack of local stamp which stamps...
...game. Whereas, by all good rules of mathematics and accounting the ordinary two cent postage required for a letter plus the registration fee of eight cents equals ten cents, the Association is charging its patrons twelve cents and stating that unless each envelope contains the required amount of stamps, no tickets will be sent out. In other words, it is overcharging each applicant two cents in postage, and the intimation seems to be more that the Association has put the requirement at twelve cents chiefly because it did not take the trouble to look into the matter than that...
Undoubtedly the remedy for a state of affairs, whose existence to some extent we must admit, lies in a dignified appeal to the men whose presence here will give the undergraduate community a truly national scope. The more western men we get of the right stamp, the greater will become our prestige; not only among the graduates, but among the sub-freshmen, who will learn through their Harvard friends of the overwhelming advantages of the life at this University...
...appeal to the fairness or good manners of the disturbers will restrain their exhilarated spirits, we suggest that they retire to the seclusion of their rooms, and, calling to mind all the humorous incidents of the previous hour, shout, and stamp to their hearts' content...