Word: phonographs
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...that is very simple. Each man carries a phonograph in his pocket...
Pass on still twenty years, and we arrive at the age in professors' lives when they are fading away into fossils. Now they are indeed the lean and slippered pantaloons spoken of by the poet. Like the phonograph, they repeat the sayings of fifty years ago, and they further resemble that excellent machine in being unable to change their ideas. Are they dogmatic? Good gracious, no! They are the most liberal men in the world, as long as you don't try to argue with them. They like to tell the old, old stories, and expect you to laugh...
...rage of collections is the rage of the age," said my companion, as we were walking home from a lecture on the phonograph; "you've never collected anything, why don't you now start a collection of autophones...
...more I thought it over, the greater appeared the value of my friend's suggestion. Instead of importuning great men like Mr. Hayes for their autographs, I might take my phonograph into Memorial Hall on the occasion of the next Alumni dinner and get his autophone...