Word: librarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...librarian of Rutgers college has offered a prize for the encouragement of the study of American literature. Twenty-five dollars yearly will be awarded to that member of the junior or senior class who shall write the best essay upon a subject assigned in the field of American literature. The subject for the present year is "Benjamin Franklin as a man of letters...
...officers of the Boylston Chemical club for the ensuing year are W. L. Jennings, president; Dr. T. W. Richards, vice-president; W. H. Warren, secretary; W. B. Bentley, treasurer; D. N. Herman, librarian; T. W. Richards, W. L. Jennings, W. S. Hendrixson, W. H. Warren, executive committee...
Professor R. Swan, librarian at Purdue University, died last Tuesday night at his home in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was a graduate of Harvard, and at one time occupied the chair of Latin at Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Annex. So fast has been the growth that Fay House in now not large enough to accommodate the classes. The building contains a reception room, a lunch room, a small conversation room, two reading rooms (both together inadequate), a laboratory of botany, two small apartments for the librarian and secretary respectively and four lecture rooms. The laboratories of Physics, Chemistry and Zoology are in other buildings. The office of the secretary is already too small for the rapidly increasing business that is brought to it; and it is unnecessary to say that the class rooms...
...Harvard college still offer their services freely, and the members of the faculty in the different departments interest them selves in making each course of study full and well balanced. The college library has been used to even a greater extent than usual during the year, and the librarian and his assistants have offered the students many advantages in carrying on their work. The reference library has increased through the influence of the library committee, and by the generosity of friends, and it now numbers 2893 volumes, many of which are of great value-an increase of 677 volumes...