Word: collectionitis
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One of the chief difficulties preparatory schools have to contend with is a lack of a good library. Scholarships, gymnasiums, and laboratories usually spring into existence after the growth of the school sufficiently warrants such innovations, but a library, consisting of something more than lexicons and encyclopedias, rarely finds a...
The Harvard University Bulletin for May, edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, has appeared. It is of great interest as giving in a compact form information concerning the work of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers. A number of bequests are announced, notably that by Mrs. Ellen Gurney of $75...
The Art School has just been given a valuable collection of Cypriote pottery by Prof. Allan Marquand. The collection, which is divided into wheel-made and hand-made specimens, includes a number of vases, amphorae, and lamps from Alambra, a village near the ancient town of Idalium. In addition to...
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented to the Medical Library, Boylston place, his very valuable and extensive collection of medical books. The library already is so filled with books that, in order to accommodate this donation, which will cover eighty lineal feet of shelf room, the librarian found it necessary...
James Russell Lowell's latest collection of poems, "Heartsease and Rue," has been added to the library.