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...deem the best preparation to be an apprenticeship in a well-arranged library; but it is not easy to find such opportunities. The oversight and introduction of new people in a library is a disadvantage to that library, as interfering with its work, which few head librarians are willing to encounter unless it is necessary to recruit the library staff. Hence a special department has been instituted at Columbia College in New York, called the school of "Library Economy" which is under the direction of Melville Dewey, the secretary of the American Library Association. They have teachers specially provided...
...HUTCHINSON.LOST.- A female pointer pup, black and white, with black head and ears, from 49 Oxford street. A suitable reward will be given...
...author's name. Some books, as various editions of the Bible, and the Greek and Latin authors, are not in the author catalogue, but are grouped together in the subject catalogue. Subject catalogue is also alphabetical. The idea is that every book be put under its most special head, and the specific heads be grouped under the larger main heads. There are 400 main headings in the subject catalogue. It was then shown how to make any special research by means of the subject catalogue. Attention was called to the reference books and guides, and the periodicals to be used...
...laborers. A very entertaining account of the unsettled state of Texas and California during the winter of 1846-47 is given in a story entitled "A Winter's Work for a Captain of Dragoons." One of the finest accounts of life at Harvard appears in this number under the head of "Notes from Harvard, its Physical basis and its Intellectual Life." Some important facts with relation to the college of which most of the students here are ignorant, strike the reader forcibly, and more honest, unprejudiced criticism is crammed in a few pages than has appeared in print for many...
...noble three hundred were transferred to the palatial steamer "Pilgrim." The "wise virgins" made at once for the dining saloon, where they ordered, devoured and digested (let us hope) an excellent dinner. The "foolish virgins" were obliged to form a line and wait at the head of the stairs for their turn. "After dinner, smoke a while" seemed to be the general maxim, and well it was carried out. Later in the evening, several members of the 'Varsity and '90 glee clubs gave a very choice selection of college songs, which were received with uproarious enthusiasm, and the cries...