I spent the morning in reading Dumas, and in wasting time over the Sunday Herald. I wonder whether Sunday newspapers will exist in 1960, or if they do exist whether they will be larger or smaller than at present. They are now a resource for people who read nothing else, but a burden for the rest of the world.Adam Sherman Hill, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard University, March 4, 1900, journal entry for a project to be placed in the University Archives and opened in 1960. Quoted in The American Scholar, Spring 2001, at 131-32.
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Will newspapers be around in 1960?
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