On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:34:47 GMT, "Bluesea"
wrote:


"JimL" wrote in message
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Just an idle muse question.

The packages of paper cut and punched for three-ring notebook binders
for school children (and old children like me, gathering cheap scratch
paper in the back to school sales). -- The pages are lined, and one
of the two sizes of lines is labelled as "college ruled." Why is
that? Is ther an assumption that, by the time one hiots college, that
our handwriting will become smaller?
....

I dunno 'bout the rest of what you posted but, college rule cramps my style
and I've only bought it when desperate which is like, never, after my first
package.

I agree about "college ruled" paper. I used to always get it, and was
glad when I first discovered it, which was either late in high school
or right around when I started college, ironically. I liked that I
could fit a lot more stuff on one page then.

As I've gotten older my eyes have too. I can't see well enough to make
good use of the "college ruled" paper anymore. The space between the
lines is now too small. I also find that it's a bother to try and
write in that small space. So I have a problem writing in it and I
have a problem reading what's written in it. I figure that I do not
need the great savings conferred by getting more lines on a page, and
the wide ruled paper seems to be cheaper anyway. As opposed to my
younger self, I now avoid "college ruled" paper, much the same way as
I avoid fine tips on pens.