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Prof. Shaler wishes those students who intend to pursue geological studies during the summer, to hand their names in as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/21/1885 | See Source »

...novelist, and a striking picture of Russian home-life fifty years ago. Two articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone Boy," and a Mexican travel paper, " A Plunge into Summer," by Sylvester Baxter, complete the longer articles of the number. The usual book reviews and short notices, together with the Contributor's Club (which contains a criticism of Mr. Watts's pictures), close this issue. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1885 | See Source »

...raised before this evening. His letter is also a personal assurance, based on his knowledge of the affairs of the society, that if this sum is raised, there will be in June a surplus of stock over liabilities. The society could never become a success so long as every summer it had to end the year without a clear surplus in the form of stock on hand. From the nature of the business, it is impossible to clear out and sell everything at the end of each year ; a certain amount of stock left on hand is inevitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1885 | See Source »

...with many other inconveniences, makes the rooms very undesirable. The valuable library is in very great danger of fire, as the building is not fire proof. A considerable amount of money has been subscribed for remodeling the interior of the building, and so it will be thoroughly renovated this summer, at an expense of $15,000. As it is expected that enough money will be raised to erect a library building, so that Prof. Abbot's library can be accepted, the committee intend to carry on this work in connection with the improvements to Divinity Hall. If the plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity Hall. | 1/29/1885 | See Source »

...south of it the square brick dormitories and the befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills that bounded the view, with the glimmer here and there of the white walls or the illuminated casements of some embowered. half-hidden villa. Eastwardly also, the prospect was, in my earlier remembrance, widely open, and I have frequently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Old Holmes House. | 1/29/1885 | See Source »