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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signatures as the most precious collection of autographs I could leave to my descendants. No doubt many of the names will one day have the same price in the eyes of the world as now in mine-but they can never suffuse them so pleasantly. I look at this document as a kind of acquaintance from my past...
There is one circumstance which invests the present discovery with peculiar value and intere St. The document containing the signature has not passed into the domain of antiquarian curiosity; it has not been picked up for an old song, to be resold for a large sum at a literary auction; nor have we to trace its history from one person to another, as best we can, during a period of two centuries and a half, because it is to day in the same custody to which it was committed the moment the ink was dry from the pens...
...very agreeable to be able to conclude with the statement that, thanks to permission courteously accorded, fac-similies of the entire document, which measures some seventeen inches by twenty, are now being executed. They will be of the full size of the original, and will leave nothing to be desired in style of production.- Letter to the London Academy...
...cause of higher education in general. Mr. Charles F. Thwing, always an observant critic of college methods, emphasizes this point in a recently published article. President Barnard's report for the last academic year has just been issued, and with is appendices, is a most valuable document. It rehearses the changes and improvements of the year, trances the work of the various schools separately, and discusses such questions as those of attendance, scholarship, the marking system, elective studies, and wonderfully successful public lecture courses of the past two winters. We are glad to notice the steady growth of the graduate...
...This document is signed by Eugene L. Richards, Jr., and Lawrence E. Sexton, for the committee. - N. Y. Star...