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AMONG the notes in preparation for the next number of the Library Bulletin are an account of all the editions of Ptolemy's Geography, a bibliography of the early editions of Milton, with a chronological arrangement of Miltoniana, and an account of the "Pietas et Gratulatio," an extraordinary outburst of loyalty published by the college in 1761, on the death of George II. and the accession of George...
...reason for refusing a student the use of a book, except its extreme value or rarity; to withhold books because there is supposed to be something indelicate in them, - the ordinary reason, I presume, - is nothing but silly prudery. Any student who wishes to take a book out on account of its improper character will certainly not be injured in his morals by reading it; and those who call for these books, as most students do, because they really want them are often put to some trouble and expense to obtain the books elsewhere than at the Library. We cannot...
...have been to my uncle's at Berry Hill, Hants, for the Christmas holidays, or you may be sure I should not have delayed so long in answering your last letter, and in thanking you for the Harvard papers you sent me. I read in them the account of last autumn's sports, but, to tell you frankly, I was surprised as much at the poor records as at the few entries. To think that only two contestants appeared for the half-mile run, for instance, - only two out of a thousand men at your University! Why, at Eton...
...amount of credit the Columbian crew took to itself; and, although I admired its pluck in the Henley races, it did not row the best University four in England by any means. Can you explain to me how, with so few athletic men at Harvard, as appears from the account of the games I above mentioned, you are able to get up so fine an eight? I hope it does n't imply that your University is content to see these few men do all the work, and win all the laurels, while it looks on, applauding victories, and finding...
...Courant has a very good article called "Smashing," which might very well have been written by a young lady, whether it is or not. The parody on "The Raven," in which the shade of Hallam is represented as suffering tortures on account of his "Constitutional History," is fairly good but nothing more. On boating prospects the Courant says...