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...undergraduate damsel was "boned" bodily from Coleridge. Later, when the sheets of three hundred copies had been struck off, another sonnet, stolen from a well known English poet, was found. The sheets were destroyed and the disgusted printer was forced a third time to make up the book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/6/1883 | See Source »

EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: After the mid-years nearly all books reserved for English courses and Sophomore Rhetoric were taken from the alcove in the reading-room. Now I suggest that a selection of the best English and American authors be made by the librarian or other competent person, and that these books be placed in some alcove. Many students, having a half hour or more of leisure, would enjoy looking over such books, whereas now we have to go through a process of red tape often consuming ten minutes, at the end of which time we are liable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/6/1883 | See Source »

...number of improvements that might be made in the Co-operative Society, and we would like to offer to its notice one or two suggestions. There is no apparent reason why a man's payment should be deferred ten days or more after the sale of his second-hand books or furniture, and we are unable to see what is to prevent the payment of the money as soon as the article is sold. Everybody knows when it is likely to be bought, and there seems to be no necessity at all for waiting a week or so to send...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/6/1883 | See Source »

...subscription book for the Pierian dinner will remain open at Drury's till Wednesday evening. All those intending to go will confer a favor by signing at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTICE. | 3/6/1883 | See Source »

This poem is said to be unpublished. There is also a book published in Mexico in 1566 and the card states that the library contains no book printed in America before this. Perhaps the most interesting of Americana is the "earliest engraved map" which was supposed to follow the map made by Columbus, now lost. The date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD LIBRARY. | 3/5/1883 | See Source »