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Attention of members is called to the stock of German books on the new book counter, comprising nearly 150 books, recently published in Germany...
...other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof. Charles Eliot Norton by Thomas Carlyle. Next you turn to a glass case which contains many a precious book, whose leaves have been thumbed by men whose names have been household words for centuries. Here is the old Indian Bible of that heroic soul, John Eliot; also the Bible of John Bunyan, with his autograph on the title page, which bears the date 1637. The Bay Psalm Book, the first...
...collection of autographs and manuscripts, although not large is very rich. If you look sharp you will see a small book of Ben Johnson's with this characteristic phrase: Sum Ben Jonsonii. It would take too much space to give even an incomplete list of autographs; here are a few: John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Robt. Burns, Emanuel Kant, John Dryden, Walter Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document...
...night and Sunday will be spent probably in Montreal. The team will arrive home in Cambridge on Tuesday morning. Tickets for the round trip are only $12. The ordinary fare one way is $14. It is hoped that all who can will accompany the team, for this reason a book has been placed at Bartlett's, which all who wish to go must sign before Thursday noon. This time has been fixed so as to enable the manager to contract for the tickets. The time when the train leaves Boston Friday will be announced hereafter...
Every sophomore who did not pass the Anticipatory Examinations in Rhetoric will kindly make a written analysis of the first book of Hill's Rhetoric, (pp. 1-62,) and present it to Mr. Wendell, at one of the regular recitations in Rhetoric, on Tuesday, No. vember...