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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Philobiblon," was Richard's literary testament and autobiography. It is in Latin and consists of a prologue, twenty chapters, and a final note. The prologue gives his reasons for writing the book. Richard de Bury had been accused by his contemporaries of snobbery. They said that he tried to make himself better than other men by accumulating his library. De Bury answered these charges by saying that his reason for collecting books was that he might leave them at his death to establish a library for the use of poor students at Oxford. He says that he wrote the "Philobiblon...
LOST.- A note book in Zoology 1 and Military Science and printed notes in Chem. 5. Please leave at CRIMSON Office...
...question is: "Resolved, That the next Republican administration shoul enact a tariff law increasing the duties on imports." The principal disputants are: Affirmative, G. Thomas '96 and R. B. Sprague '97; F. R. Steward '96 and H. W. Foote '97. The debate will be open to the public. Please note the change in place of meeting...
Year after year Harvard has gone to Springfield confident of success. The papers have sounded a note of triumph and the freshmen have put up all their money; and year by year-with one glorious exception-we have come back beaten. But we have not been utterly cast down. Oh no,- "If A. hadn't fumbled the ball on the five yard line, or if B. hadn't slipped just as he had a clear field, or if C. had only got by that Eli fullback, we'd have had 'em on the run. As it is they deserve lots...
...murmuring and scuffling may be a significant, but it is hardly a dignified, manner of expressing impatience, even if half of the class is totally unable to hear a word of what the lecturer is saying. Banging of note books on the benches and heavy stamping of feet may be indicative of the extreme disgust which inspires the class when the instructor threatens wholesale distribution of E's, but it is not gentlemanly and polite conduct which would be naturally expected from upper classmen...