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The estimated cost of the building, including foundations but exclusive of the floats, is $25,000. Last fall $15,000 of this sum had been raised, and at a meeting of the collection committee held during the Christmas holidays plans for continuing the collection were mapped out. It was the...
A complete collection is being made at Princeton of the various student publications, including literary periodicals of the college, programmes of class day exercises, literary society publications, class histories, and numerous other papers of importance as bearing on the student life.
A little book called "Flowers that Never Fade," by F. B. Wiley (Boston, Bradlee Whidden), gives an account of the Ware collection of glass flowers in the University Museum, the history of their manufacture, and a biographical sketch of their maker.
The illustrations of the "Lampoon," which comes out today, are in general rather poor. The centre picture is a collection of college scenes without much interest and some of the other drawings are weak.
To the engravings of the Gray collection exhibited on the walls several additions have been made, among which are the large and vigorous etching after Turner's Calais Pier by Francis Seymour Haden, and etchings by the French etchers Meryon and Appian.