Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CHARLES F. THWING, who wrote the articles on college expenses and college studies which recently appeared in Scribner's, has in preparation an article on the college press. To aid him in preparing this article, he would be glad to receive one or more copies of the different college publications. His address is Andover, Mass...
...Cambridge Press would perhaps do well to restrict its Harvard correspondent to sign-boards and other similar subjects that give a fair field for the exercise of his somewhat lively imagination; for his attempts to deal with facts are remarkable for brilliancy rather than accuracy, that is, if we can judge from the way in which he speaks of the "electric" system, and from the following Junior forensic subject, as given in the Press, - "Is the popular estimate of Micawber as the ideal historian erroneous...
...indeed vandalism to tamper with anything so sublime. We bow with grave deference to its author, the complaisant editor who chuckles with delight at seeing in print more than a column of his nicely turned, choicely worded, carefully revised manuscript. We recognize in him a brother member of the press who sits high aloft beyond the pale of criticism, and casts his blunt weapons down at us. We are too greatly prostrated to attempt any palliation, and if we hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that in a future case even he, powerful conjurer though...
...Alden's Sixpenny Guide to Oxford." This book will contain about sixty pages of reading matter and fifty heliotypes and woodcuts, including views of all the College buildings, those in Boston and Jamaica Plain as well as those in Cambridge. The heliotypes will be furnished by Osgood & Co., the press work will be done at the Riverside Press, and the price of the volume will be placed at one dollar. The enterprise meets with high favor among the "powers that be," and we predict success for the enterprising publishers...
Blow strong, ye winds, press full their sails...