Word: size
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reading" of the books in the Library began last Monday. It is simply comparing the books on the shelves with a list kept in each alcove. But some idea of the size of the Library can be derived from the fact that this "reading" occupies three months each year...
Against the wall, and of life size...
...earnestly hope it will serve as a protection; yet, why not take all possible precautions, especially when the sparrows are such an easy acquisition? Last year the few robins in the yard did their duty for a while, but eventually grew so fat that they could compete in size with an ordinary pigeon, and could scarcely reach the tops of the trees. Though Boston has lost its Granary Elms, let Harvard still retain the beautiful foliage of its college elms, and afford some material for the sentimentalists of the University...
...will be heliotypes of a few of the former Presidents, and of all the Professors at present in the University, making the number of illustrations about one hundred and twenty, varying two or three more or less. Accompanying the heliotypes of the Professors, which are to be of cabinet size, will be their autographs...
...volume will be of imperial quarto size, i. e. eleven by fourteen inches, and bound in different styles. The work will be published only by subscription, and will be ready in June...