Word: auction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton library has been enlarged since the beginning of the college term by the addition of 335 books, most of which have been bought at auction. The department of History has been benefited greatly by the new books. The "Stories of the Nations" which has excited so much favorable comment have been added entire. Kinglake's Crimea in eight volumes and four volumes of Browning's Tuscany have been given to this department. The department of Biography has been enlarged by Peigrot's French Biography; Politics, by Carson's work on the Centennial of the Constitution. To the department...
...there was a reading room in No. 3, where also an annual auction of old books, for the benefit of indigent students, was held. In 1878-79 this room was occupied by a member of the class of '79, who earned his living by tutoring and by the sale of text-book and stationery...
...auction sale of reading room papers at Phillips Academy this fall, the CRIMSON was bid up to $7 and the Lampoon...
There will be an auction on Wednesday, June 6, at 2 p. m., at the New Divinity School Library, of a student's collection of about 250 volumes in fine condition, containing works of Shakespeare, Montaigne, Plutarch, (Plato), (Jowett), Longfellow, Emerson, Browning, "George Eliot," Darwin, etc. Also English, French and German dictionaries; and many other works of interest, among them Emerson's "Woody Plants of Massachusetts," Johnson's "Oriental Religions" (Persia and China). William's "Indian Wisdom," Julius Sachs' Text-book of Botany, etc. All must be sold. Terms cash. Books may be seen on Monday and Tuesday, June...
...contract there is a stipulation to the effect that the building shall be ready for occupancy by May, 1889. Before the new library can be commenced, the two old buildings which are on the site of the new library must be removed. They will be sold at auction within a few weeks. There have been no material changes in the plans of the building, which were chosen several months ago, but some of the details have been changed. The material of the building will be lock-faced long-meadow stone, of which there will be two grades; one will...