Word: northrop
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...means let the plan of Mr. B. G. Northrop for the representation of Yale at the Centennial by the works of her graduates and professors, be acted on. Let Yale show to the representatives of European educational interests the published results of her one hundred and seventy-six years of instruction. To be sure, her books will hardly rival, in the department of belles-lettres, the poetry and prose of Harvard's Lowell, Emerson, and Holmes; but in solid, substantial intellectual food of every grade she can make a truly grand display. And why not grade the Yale collection according...