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Some seventy-five or a hundred new law books by English authors have just been added to the Dane Hall library...
...this has been extensively copied, it may be well to state that the proper figures are 252 Freshmen at Harvard, and 167 at Yale. The Freshmen in all departments at Harvard will number nearly five hundred...
...forty-five shall be the hour
...account of the increasing number of books and the poor accommodations for reference and study, it was proposed, about five years ago, to enlarge Gore Hall, but through lack of funds the project was abandoned for the time. At length it has become absolutely necessary to make some addition to the stacking room, as the increase of volumes has been very rapid within the last few years, many of the books coming from the bequests of Charles Sumner and Dr. Walker. Under the present librarian, who was appointed assistant in 1825 and again in 1841, and in 1856 was appointed...
...assessing each class a certain percentage of the amount necessary for the crew was instituted, and was acknowledged by every one to be a very just and equitable way of raising the money required. Each class now in passing through College supports one crew. The Freshmen are assessed thirty-five per cent of the whole amount, because in the first year there are fewer general expenses than in other years, and large subscriptions can be more easily made. Other classes are assessed less, the Seniors least of all, because the expenses of a college course increase as one advances...