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...Peters '12 will leave New York Saturday on a scientific expedition to Santo Domingo, where he will collect birds, mammals, and reptiles for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. He will be gone about three months, and will make a thorough study of the avian-fauna of the island. Many of the birds to be collected there for the University are found in no other part of the world, and several available species are almost unknown to science...
...everyone knows who hears him that he is taking part in a beneficial mental exercise. He is developing speaking ability and the power of logical analysis. The debater certainly receives no bad influence from being trained to find at once the flaw in an opponent's argument, or to collect diligently the facts upon a subject before he attempts to speak upon...
...committee, of which the Hon. Joseph Hodges Choate '52 and the Hon. Charles Joseph Bonaparte '71 are members, has been formed to collect books especially those in French and Flemish, and to some extent those in English, for Belgian soldiers who are in hospitals, detention camps, and prisons in various places in Europe. Contributions or funds of money may be sent to Mr. John Van Rickstal, Belgian Vice-Consul, 25 Madison avenue, New York City, or to Professor Leon Dupriez, 110 Irving street, Cambridge...
...collection of all available data relative to the European war, started a year ago by the University library, has already grown to be a considerable one. It contains more than 1,000 books and documents, not including the many foreign newspapers which the library is filing and a collection now being formed in Germany for the University. The object is not to collect a huge mass of useless publications, but to gather together a representative and authoritative assembly of documents that may some day be historically valuable in determining the causes and course of the war. The literature...
...shop will mean much to students who desire to collect books and yet who do not know how to select their purchases or how much they should pay for them. Here there will always be some one to advise them; and already this new shop has an extremely interesting collection of rare editions and fine bindings. The greatest field for this new Yale institution will be in second-hand books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Good editions of the writers of the Queen Anne and Georgian ages may be purchased reasonably and the time is not far away...