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...sample heliotype album which was saved from the fire at Pach's studio is now on exhibition at Bartlett's. Although the book of itself is more or less smoked, the pictures are uninjured and will serve as a pretty fair specimen of those to be contained in the class album. All who have signified their desire to purchase such album are requested to see the sample at once, and to leave with their order the necessary deposit of $5. The order is to be given on the back of the class list furnished each member of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/7/1883 | See Source »

...price of Henry Norman's book on the Greek Play at Harvard has been reduced from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/6/1883 | See Source »

...opened an old note book and pointed to the unfinished sentences scrawled over several pages. "How do you suppose I am going to make anything out of that?" It certainly did look discouraging, and, as I had not been very successful myself, I said, "What are your arguments for doing away with lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURES VERSUS TEXT-BOOKS. | 2/6/1883 | See Source »

...They are very few, not many of them in our college curriculum; and if a professor can't hold the interest of his class while lecturing he had better use a poor text-book. We might learn the whole thing in the time it takes to translate our notes and copy them. What do you say to getting up a petition to have some of these fellows stop lecturing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURES VERSUS TEXT-BOOKS. | 2/6/1883 | See Source »

...first book which the Chaucer Society will publish this year will be Mr. W. M. Rossetti's comparison of Chaucer's "Troilus," with its part original, the "Filostrato" of Boccaccio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/5/1883 | See Source »