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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The authorities of the library have always, and especially during the past year, been courteous and prompt in adopting suggestions of the students in the interest of improvement. I should like to propose one more improvement, and that is, that instead of selecting new books without reference to the students, the authorities allow each man in the university to suggest one book, or series of book, to be purchased when next any books are added to the library. As the students are most interested in the selection of their reading material there can be no objection...
Affiliated tradesmen of the Co-operative Society are expected to keep a book in which each member when claiming the benefit of the membership in the society will be required to sign his name. The signature must correspond with the one on the member's ticket...
...Harrison, is meeting with a great success in England. "We are indebted to Miss Harrison for laying down the lines upon which the Greek myths can be studied," says the Academy; and the Athenoeum declares that "it is only just to say that we are not acquainted with any book produced by any man at either university which does so much for the popular knowledge of ancient art as this work by a student from one of the Cambridge colleges for women." The author of this book is a graduate of Girton College for Women, and the Academy reviewer...
...refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Vereschagin, at this proposition, opened his blue eyes and, with a sweet, quiet smile, observed, "Gentlemen, I have come here to learn painting, and with no intention of being tied to any ladder upside-down, so I give you notice that I have a revolver in my pocket, with which...
London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...