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...book-stack of the new building to be erected for the great public library of Boston, will be constructed on the same general plan as the new wing of Gore Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/5/1884 | See Source »

...comes Mr. Ruskin with 462 votes; Mr. Matthew Arnold is third with 455, and Mr. Browning fourth with 448. Mr. Ruskin's chief work is, according to the number of votes it received. "Modern Painters;" Mr. Arnold's is "Literature and Dogma;" Mr. Browning's, "The Ring and the Book. The historians are headed by Froude 391, who comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENGLISH ACADEMY. | 1/5/1884 | See Source »

Professor Sumner of Yale will institute the plan of having a "loan library for political economy" this year for his optional class. A book containing 350 questions relative to political economic subjects will be the textbook used, and the optional study will consist of looking up the references bearing upon those questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/5/1884 | See Source »

...standard for admission at Princeton has been raised by the addition of a chapter in Hart's Rhetoric, four books of the Anabasis instead of three, the second book of Euclid, and the Quadratics of two unknown quantities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1884 | See Source »

Lost-on Monday evening, Dec. 17th, probably during the dancing at Memorial Hall, an alligator-skin pocket book, with card inside. The finder will confer a great favor by returning the same to T. N. Rhinelander, 736 Cambridge Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 1/4/1884 | See Source »