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Bright tipped with gold like leaf and hill When summer goes...
...overtaken by asthma or some kindred disease, and the ready relief obtained by the use of this far-famed health restorer. The whole is classically melodious and the effect is very piquant and amusing, when the basses take up the refrain. The revival of this youthful composition adds another leaf to the laurels of our talented professor, and we should like to suggest to the Glee Club the advisability of producing it at their spring concert...
Among the other interesting curiosities is a Hebrew Bible used by President Dunster. It contains on a fly-leaf a note by Josiah Quincy, stating that this "valuable relic" will be carefully preserved in the archives of the college library associated as it is with the memory of one of its earliest, most faithful, highly esteemed and learned presidents and benefactors...
...Removed to the present room in 1842." Below in pencil, as usual, is the explanatory note: "The mineral cabinet occupied the east lower room of Harvard Hall, till it was moved to the upper room in Harvard, which had been occupied by the library." On the fly-leaf is the following interesting note by John Langdon Sibley: "After Webster's execution, search was made for this book, with the hope that it might result in some pecuniary benefit to his family. After a long time it was found in a box with minerals. Friends of the family were consulted...
...restoring the leaves after the rage for autographs had departed from the breasts of the kleptomaniacs. Thus we find the Duke Alexis and a few of his suite occupy a lonely position at the top of a page. The democratic Dom Pedro is relegated to another lonely leaf. These are some of the woes "that troop with majesty...