Word: statements
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...complete. The ordinary cards do not embrace the titles of twenty or thirty thousand old volumes, nor the accessions for the last six weeks (just now no accessions since August 20, and perhaps earlier). As each book costs the Library a dollar to catalogue, - according to a statement in the Boston Advertiser, which has never been denied, - it seems but fair that the persons for whom this expense is incurred should have free access to the best catalogue...
...wish to call attention to a statement concerning the Reading-Room, which appears in another column. The Reading-Room Association has been a blessing to a great many students during the past five or six years, and it would be so to a great many more, if they would only subscribe and get into the habit of going there. To many the Reading-Room is known only from the fact of their having seen papers hanging on the walls of Lower Massachusetts during an examination. By the payment of a trifling fee, any one obtains the right...
...began on the weather, of course; but we soon branched off, and were getting along nicely, when I happened to deny, laughingly, some statement under discussion. "I don't believe in it." said I, "any more than I do in old Cooke's molecular theory...
TALKING of cap and gown, we can vouch for the incorrectness of part, at least, of the following statement from the Berkeleyan : "Harvard, Princeton, Williams, Rutgers, Columbia, Trinity, Alleghany, Michigan, and the Junior class at Yale have adopted the cap and gown." Not even "are going to adopt"! Moderation in all things, dear Berkeleyan, even in such wild flights of imagination as the above, is highly desirable...
Whether this last statement is strictly correct is a question futurity alone can solve; but we have a question which we doubt not the editors of the Student can answer : What is "a nine made up of extra material"? A nine containing extra material might either be a nine of overfed men, or (strange and paradoxical though it may seem) it might be a nine with more than nine men in it; but a nine made up of extra material is indeed a wonderful thing. Apres tout, perhaps it only means that the material is extra good...