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...Madison University seats in chapel are sold off to the highest bidders at auction. Here is surely a plan for relieving Harvard's financial needs unthought of hitherto. We heartily favor it. (Of course it would necessitate voluntary chapel, as a consequence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE WORLD. | 3/22/1882 | See Source »

...library of R. D. Child, of Boston, is to be sold at auction, commencing at 10 o'clock this forenoon, at No. 2 Beacon street. It contains many scarce Americana; including Barlow's "Columbiad;" "George Bancroft's Poems," published at Cambridge, 1823; Eliot's and Pierce's "Histories of Harvard College;" and Harvard Catalogues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/15/1882 | See Source »

...recent book auction in London a copy of Boccaccio sold for pound940...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

...COLLECTION of pictures to be sold at auction next week contains several interesting copies of old masters, and one or two paintings which are said to be originals by Paul Veronese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

Sell my old hats indeed! As well turn an honest penny by putting up at auction my old keepsakes and gifts. As well exchange my old dog for a nice new one, paying only three dollars for the bargain. As well give up all memory of the old times, if three dollars will substitute a neatly bound new one with such dainty white pages! Sell old hats indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD HATS. | 1/9/1874 | See Source »

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