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...library was removed to Gore Hall, and numbered at that time about 41,000 volumes, and had a fund with a total income of $250 a year. In the same year Mr. Sibley became assistant librarian. Fifteen years later, at the death of the librarian, Dr. Thaddeus William Harris, known widely as an entomologist, Mr. Sibley succeeded to the position of librarian. In 1877, when Mr. Sibley resigned and became librarian Emeritus, the library contained 164,000 volumes and nearly as many pamphlets, and the permanent fund' formerly $5000, had been increased...
...still, however, room for advance in the study of the original resources. Work of this character engages much attention at Johns Hopkins. Valuable contributions are made to the published works of history, and a taste for accuracy and perseverance is developed that leads many to devote themselves especially to later historical study...
...SOCIETY. The meeting this week will be on Thursday evening, at 7.30 p.m., instead of Wednesday, as usual. Communication by Mr. H. C. Appleton, '87, Geological Sketch of Mount Desert. Nominations of new members should be handed to the secretary or vice-presidents not later than Wednesday noon, instead of being given to the committee at the meeting...
...fact that Messrs. Richardson & Bacon are now the agents of the Society for Coal and Wood. This firm gives members low prices, and, as the directors believe, gives excellent quality of coal. Delivery is prompt. Coal ordered before 4 p.m. is delivered usually the next day, and never later than the second...
During the Revolution, the day was a national institution, being annually recommended by Congress. But after the general thanksgiving for peace, 1784, our ancestors of a later date did not have anything worth being grateful for until the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. Moreover, for a long time after the Revolution, the official observance of Thanksgiving was confined to New England, and the first Thursday of November was generally selected. Various local customs existed throughout the country during this time, but very slow were the Governors, especially in the southern states, to appoint a day by official decree...