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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...request of the Reading Room Association we call attention to the recent thefts of its property. A desire to steal something seems to have infected the College and its vicinity. The depredations of outsiders are frequent and annoying enough, and when in addition kleptomania threatens to become prevalent among the students, the prospect is a gloomy one. It is very exasperating to all frequenters of the Reading Room to have its magazines suddenly "spirited" away, and we trust that the students are not numerous who can voluntarily annoy so many of their fellows...
...which the exercises are designated by mysterious combinations of letters and numerals, and are briefly described. After much study I have deciphered a part of it. As each student kept at least one horse, racing was one of the chief amusements, and the list of races was remarkably large. Among them were Gk 9 and Gk 1, the former for famous trotters, and the latter for those who had never beaten 3.30. Ltn 2 was an exhibition of family cobs, Ltn 7 of draft-horses, and Eng 5 of ladies' saddle-horses. Phycs 2 seems to have been a trial...
LIGHT of my eyes and constant solace of my soul, many a time has the humblest of your slaves meant to draw aside the curtain of his being to you; but, although he has been silent while among these dogs of Giaours (whom may the Prophet roast in Gehenna !) he has not ceased to think of his Beeghaz, for how truly has our divine poet Hafiz* said...
...tenth Library Bulletin contains, in the body of the accession list, a valuable note on the early maps of America. Among the accessions is a copy of the Caxton Bible, which was printed from movable type and bound in the short space of twelve hours, on occasion of the Caxton commemoration in 1877, copies of which are also in the libraries of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society...
...closed by the President's Report. He has shown, to be sure, that the results of the present system are, on the whole, good; but this does not prove that it has no defects, or that there is no better system. There is undoubtedly a strong feeling of dissatisfaction among many undergraduates with the way in which the scholarship funds are at present administered. It is claimed, for instance, that many are allowed to compete for scholarships to whom they are no more of a necessity than to others who are practically excluded. Protests against the present usage have been...