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...library staff. Hence a special department has been instituted at Columbia College in New York, called the school of "Library Economy" which is under the direction of Melville Dewey, the secretary of the American Library Association. They have teachers specially provided for instruction, and they aim to secure a wide recognition of different library methods and principles by providing lectures during the year from some of the principal American librarians. The class is made up of both men and women, and I am told they find opportunities for their graduates easily, but mainly in narrow spheres...
Work for the base-ball cage at Princeton has been commenced. It is to be of wood with windows in the top and will be 150 feet long and 60 feet wide...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Will you allow me to call attention to a course of lectures which a Harvard graduate is now delivering at the Hawthorne Rooms? The subject, "Russian Literature," is one which at present attracts wide interest among cultivated persons, and the fact that the lecturer, Mr. Ivan Panin, is himself a Russian, adds to the value of the lectures. It is certainly worthy of attention that we have here an opportunity of knowing what a Russian, educated at Harvard, and able to compare the works of his countrymen with those of Western Europeans and Americans, puts upon Puschkin...
...Christ Church amid the trees. It is full of the beauful air of repose which has endeared Gray's "Elegy" to the world. At the left of the picture is a separate scrap showing the sunny vine- covered side of Massachusetts Hall. "Cambridge on the Charles" is a wide view across the river marshes of the trees and spires of the town. The stream winds on unrippled in the sun and the drowsy shade is massed densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push up into the sky on the right. Low in the middle distance...
...college building which ex-Governor Leland Stanford is erecting in California is 600 feet long and 200 feet wide. It is in the form of a hollow square with a cloister 1,700 feet long. It is one story high and is designed after the style of the old Spanish missions which are among the most beautiful pieces of architecture in America...