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...very hard to say no to such an appeal, and it costs me a struggle to say it. I can scarce find in my vocabulary a negative soft enough and hesitating enough for the occasion. Were I living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that...
...appears desirable to record in the Academy that a third signature has been found, the discovery of which was on this wise. At the suggestion of the writer, and with the kind and ready assent of the hospital authorities, search was made among the monuments, under the direction of Sir Arnold W. White, chapter clerk. The result was the unearthing of the original counterpart of the lease, dated July 29, 1635, by which the hospital demised to "John Harvard Clerke and Thomas Harvard Citizen and Clothworker of London," certain tenements in the parish of All hallows, Barking; and the counterpart...
...Papajian, of Constantinople, has a number of handsome Turkish articles which he is desirous of selling to members of the University who may be in search of Christmas presents. A visit to his rooms at 4 Divinity Ave., would amply repay...
...reserved for outside reading in each course. These books are arranged each morning on the shelves of the library in a systematic way so that a man has no difficulty whatever in finding any book he wants. But before an hour has passed whoever wants a book must search every shelf, table and corner of the reading-room before he can be sure that the book he wants is not in use. If each man should take the very slight trouble necessary, and replace the book in its proper place after using, he would save an infinite amount of annoyance...
...most important one of all (and hence, the one most in demand last Friday and Saturday) could be found nowhere, Friday afternoon and Saturday forenoon. It was ascertained that the book had been taken out Friday evening, in the regular way, by a certain '88 man, and Saturday forenoon search was made throughout the reading-room and the book was not there at all. Finally, in the afternoon, it was found out that the aforesaid person had recaptured it the first thing after returning it, and that he was now in the stack (which is inaccessible to students at large...