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...chess game lately in progress with Yale, Harvard has been forced to resign...
...Sibley was librarian of the Harvard Library from 1856 to 1877. During this period of twenty-one years, the progress that seemed to characterize all that related to the Library was very great, and it may be truly said that this great progress was largely due to Mr. Sibley's devotion to the interests of the institution. Harvard certainly has every reason to be thankful to one who has helped her in attaining to what now is her proud boast, "the largest and best college library in the country...
...other nations"; for to say this is to slight those principles which every true American loves to think of as the cause of his country's greatness. We are the exponent of an original and unique form of government whose feelings are almost lost in its advantages. Our progress is due largely to the fact that, being freed at first from an inferior form of rule, together with the obnoxious customs it carried with it, we have been kept free thus far from that form of rule and those customs...
...what effect the present close election in England has upon the English undergraduates. The English Universities have always been strongholds of conservatism, and although it seems strange to the democratic American that a body of educated men should so place themselves in opposition to the liberal spirit of progress, it must be remembered that a large number of students belong to the aristocratic families...
...have sprouted. Hereafter, the fall work being thoroughly reviewed is to be set aside forever, and we are to be permitted to combine our energies upon the task in hand. The change must prove beneficial in every respect, and we hail it most cordially as a promising sign of progress. - Williams...