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The Boston Post wayside writer has the following to say in regard to a familiar character: "While penning this paragraph, in relation to the genus tramps and beggars, I had a call from the king tramp of this country, Gen. Daniel Pratt, who has travelled so extensively through Uncle Sam...
Under history the important collection in thirty-seven volumes, by Barriere & Lescure, of "Memoires Relatifs a l'Histoire de France Pendant le 18e Siecle," is catalogued in detail. Recent class reports of the classes of '57 and '62 are in the library.
The department of "University Notes" in this issue of the Bulletin are very full and interesting. A description of the new Jefferson Physical Laboratory, which was substantially copied into a recent number of the Advertiser, appear, as well as notes on the observatory and the Agassiz Museum. From the latter...
The list of accessions to the library is unusually full, and shows the rapid pace at which Harvard's collection is growing.
The Baltimore American irreverently says that the collection of the Johns Hopkins Historical Field Club consists of an Indian hatchet and a brick from the ancient church of Joppa.