Word: tried
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have received from Rutger's College two copies of the tri-weekly of that college. It seems that there has been a split on the editorial board, and the dissenters have published a paper similar to the regular issue, with the same advertisements and the same board of editors on the first page. This freak of journalism is very amusing...
...take my note book and try to write, but the sun comes blazing down on the back of my head and neck till my eyes swim and I wonder whether my hair will be light pink or blue the next day. This may sound fearful, but I have got such severe headaches from this tri-weekly broiling that I prefer to cut and grind up the course in the library rather than attend the lectures. A few curtains will not impoverish our lords and masters, and will cure the defect; - why can't they be hung there at once, especially...
...with the proper leaven of editorial, not at lengthy intervals of a a week each, but every other day. The editors whose enterprise has brought about this change, and the college which is to receive the benefit of it are to be congratulated upon this new departure. A tri-weekly is a long step towards a daily paper, and at Princeton, cannot but be for the best interest of the college; for there the Nassau Literary Magazine affords a refuge in which the literary men of the college can find a convenient hiding place for their work...
...SUIPER, do you know when you attempt to make a pun you remind me very much of Batkin's new paper?" "How is that, Dingus?" "Why, because you tri-weekly." Dingus will be able to attend to his duties about the first of March. - Acta...