The Bowdoin Orient sings the praises of the stylograph as follows: "Among modern inventions there is none which is more likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury of his brain the poem which is to be produced, so the servant stylograph contains within itself the hidden reservoir from which, at his will, ink sufficient for the writing will flow. Then, again, the stylograph is destined to play an important part in history. Think of the value that fortunate pen would possess which, after having in the hands of some future President, signed the treaty for the annexation of Canada, should be preserved for long ages, perchance yet containing the original ink. Demosthenes is said to have committed suicide by taking poison which he carried in the tip of his pen in readiness for an emergency. We hardly dare to suggest the superior facilities which a stylographic pen offers for such a purpose lest the blood of a throng of imitators may be on our own head."