Word: book
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second issue of this book has just been made, and it fully maintains the reputation attained by the number for 1873. Mr. Englehardt is the boating editor of the Turf, Field, and Farm, whose able criticisms on all the late races are well known to our readers...
...rules of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, those of the Association of Amateur Oarsmen, the rules of betting, the definition of an "amateur" oarsman, several pages for memoranda, and various tables of more or less value to boating men make up the rest of a most useful little book. The price of the Almanac is 50 cents...
BEFORE me, neatly pasted in the book which contains the printed and written evidence of the pleasures and pains of three years' college life, there, between a summons and a play-bill, lies the slip of paper whereon the Steward informs me that I may retain my old room for yet another year. The wording of this, to me, important document is formal to the last degree. The gentleman who gave it me, too, showed no appreciation of the importance of the transaction, but was gazing over my shoulder the while at a couple of Freshmen laden with checks...
...medium of communication which should be used. That the College papers are not better than they are, is as much the fault of the instructors as of the students. Nor let them think that there are no appropriate subjects on which to contribute. Advice and information on electives, text-books, and methods of study, now given only to a few, and in a desultory manner, would be gratefully received by the editors, and we are sure acceptable to their subscribers. A published list of the best text and reference books on various subjects, and a notice from time to time...
...bindings, rare editions, and exquisite texts, is testified by the Didots, the Foulis, the Pickerings, and the Roger Paynes he has collected; and though our opportunities for seeing really fine typography in this country are so rare that we are not trained to appreciate the delicate finish of these books, yet one cannot help admiring the vellum and gilding, the colored leather, and even the ivory and precious stones. The handsomest books in the collection are two reprints of old books full of monkish illustrations of the Florentine school, the one a translation of the Imitation of a Kempis...