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...Peabody Library, Baltimore, contains 73,000 volumes; it was founded in 1861. It is said that "Professors at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Virginia and Michigan universities' are employed in the task of giving advice as to the selection of all books bought by this library...
...Hudson, editor of the "Harvard Shakespere," is writing a life of Webster, which will be published by Little, Brown...
...base-ball season is rapidly approaching, a few extracts from the rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Association, last December, may be of interest to our readers: "In the first place, the membership at present is limited to the clubs of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Brown; and a unanimous vote of all these clubs is necessary to elect new members of the association. The annual fee for membership is fifteen dollars. In regard to the rule governing the membership of college club nines the constitution provides that 'Any student who has been pursuing a course of study through...
...place usually has queer little closets on each side, with glass doors. These, as may be readily seen, furnish great possibilities of decoration. The windows have the delicious oldfashioned window-seats, that are still more charming by being upholstered in the prevailing tint of the room, or else in brown leather, picked out in gold. If the pursuit of knowledge were ever delightful, to pursue it in one of these comfortable, roomy seats, with heavy and artistic window-curtains to give it an indescribable air of cozy seclusion, must give it an added charm. There is a wonderful taste shown...
...adjourned annual meeting of the trustees of Dartmouth College, last evening, it was voted not to accept the resignation of Professor Sanborn, but to engage Ex-President Brown of Hamilton College to assist in his department. It was decided to arrange with Dr. John Lord for a course of historical lectures. It was voted to celebrate Webster's centennial next summer, and Gov. Bell and Ex-Gov. Prescott were appointed a committee on the matter...