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Through the researches of those connected with the observatory an almost invaluable library of scientific records has been accumulated. In this collection there are a large number of manuscripts and photographic plates which, if they should be destroyed, could never be replaced. For several years these valuable records have of...
John Osborne Sargent, of the class of 1830, died at his home in New York on December 28. From the time when Mr. Sargent entered college in 1826 he has been connected in various ways with Harvard, and has always taken a profound interest in his University. While he was...
An addition of great interest to all Harvard men falls within the present college year, The late James Russell Lowell be queathed to Harvard College his copy of Webster on Witchcraft, once the property of Increase Mather, sometime president of Harvard College, together with any of his books of which...
The Czar of Russia has sent to Stanford University a collection of minerals valued at $35,000.
The craze of the antiquary for old things was the excuse for a collection of French poets of before 1300 and similarly in the search for Roman law the jurists of the 16th century explored the codes of the middle ages.