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Soule & Bugbee, the Boston law book publishers, are publishing a periodical, "Legal Bibliography," which they are mailing to the students of the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/10/1883 | See Source »

...Laughlin resumes his lectures in Political Economy 2 tomorrow, the section having finished Cairne's text book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/9/1883 | See Source »

...Advocate wishes to reduce the time for keeping out library books from four weeks to two weeks. The shorter time would perhaps do for a novel, but for books of reference, text books or historical and philosophical books which cannot be easily finished in a few days, four weeks is none too long a time. That some books, however, are kept out longer than is necessary there can be no doubt. Would not a system of "request cards" obviate the difficulty? When a student is desirous of a book which is out at that time, the librarian could send...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1883 | See Source »

...distinguishing principle of the forthcoming Science as an educational journal, it is stated, will be its entire independence of the school-book publishing trade. One of its important features as a scientific journal will be a monthly correspondence from every European centre of scientific intelligence from Norway to Italy, summarizing the proceedings of all the learned societies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1883 | See Source »

...most popular and profitable courses of the sophomore year is Prof. Hill's series of lectures upon English authors. According to the present arrangement this course will cease this week, the last lecture occurring Thursday afternoon. The hour thus left will be devoted to the study of the text-book in Rhetoric. Why Prof. Hill's course is not continued throughout the year it is difficult to say. One hour a week would undoubtedly suffice for the instruction in Rhetoric, a subject which, as now taught, we agree with the writer in the Traveller in considering altogether too elementary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1883 | See Source »