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...idea of this society originated among some of the instructors, and has met with the hearty approval of all that have been informed of it. Such a society would, if kept up, be the foundation-stone of what might, in a few years, prove of immense value to all students of History, in or out of college. The chief support now must come from the present Junior and Sophomore classes, for, as it will take some three or four months to organize it, '78 cannot be expected to lend much assistance, though a small gift from the graduating class would...
STEWART SHILLITO, Treasurer.THE second edition of Shakspere printed in this country appeared in 1807. The list of subscribers shows an extraordinary interest in Shakspere among the students in various New England colleges. At Harvard there were no less than ninety-seven copies taken, the names of Edward Everett and Richard H. Dana being among the subscribers. At Brown University twenty-eight were taken, at Dartmouth seven, and at Union seventeen...
...late Dr. Martyn Paine has bequeathed the bulk of his property to Harvard College. It is not to be used until the income shall amount to $8,000. It is to be employed as follows: $4,800 will be divided among sixteen scholarships, four in each class, to be known as Robert Troup Paine Scholarships. $1,500 to be devoted to prizes for essays on various subjects, and the remainder ($1,700) is to go to the Library, - $800 to be spent in buying books and $900 to be set aside as an accumulating fund...
...buildings, those in Boston and Jamaica Plain as well as those in Cambridge. The heliotypes will be furnished by Osgood & Co., the press work will be done at the Riverside Press, and the price of the volume will be placed at one dollar. The enterprise meets with high favor among the "powers that be," and we predict success for the enterprising publishers...
...have already, among our exchanges, the Trinity Tablet, the Boston Beacon, the Lasell Leaves, and Monthly Musings; why do we not all make use of "apt alliteration's artful aid"? We might have "Yale Yelps," "Vassar Voices," "Cornell Criticisms" (not a bad name for the Era), "The Bowdoin Bore," and "The Princeton Puritan," "Dartmouth Diggings," "Amherst Attempts...