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...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 to have built several additional shelves...
...sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus. The sarcophagus is nearly twelve feet long, seven high and five and a half broad, and the total weight is twenty-five tons, of which the cover weighs ten. It is all of fine Parian marble. Several French savants are now studying it at Constantinople...
Willard, last year's captain, will probably cover first base this year. His playing is too well-known to need eulogy...
...congratulate the '89 board of the Advocate on its energy and good taste as shown in the improved appearance of the paper. The change from a black and white to a crimson and white cover, the absence of the dividing line between the columns, and the new arrangement both of prose and verse all go to make up a very attractive-looking paper. Old Mother Advocate stepping out of her ancient crinoline and poke bonnet, and arraying herself in the garments which modern fashion demands, presents a very pretty and graceful picture, and she need not blush at it either...
...three days have been much better typographically on account of these changes. In justification to ourselves, we wish to say that both the paper and the type were ordered before the appearance of that barbed arrow cast at us by the '88 board of the Advocate, under cover of their retreat. However, let by-gone be by-gones. The CRIMSON prides itself on looking much better than it did last week, and means to preserve its looks in the future...