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LECTURES ON THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS.A course of eight lectures on the Acropolis at Athens was begun in the Jefferson Laboratory on February 15th, by Dr. J. R. Wheeler. The lectures will be given on Monday and Friday afternoons at 4 o'clock, beginning February 15 and ending March 11. A synopsis of the lectures may be had at the University Bookstore or upon application to any of the instructors in Greek. The course, though intended particularly for classical students, will be open to the public...
...expected that not much time will be required to do that work, since a part of the inside walls will be finished in Philadelphia pressed brick with red mortar, and therefore will require no further finishing. Work on the flooring has not yet been begun, but the supporting iron cross beams are all in place and the actual work of laying the floors will be begun as soon as is practicable. Throughout the whole building every care has been taken to add to the convenience of the rooms, and the only drawback is in the apparent lowness of the ceilings...
...term opened February 1. A series of lectures on economic and constitutional history has been begun by E. W. Bemis, Ph. D., professor in Johns Hopkins University, and will be continued throughout the term. A new physical laboratory has been fitted up and placed under the charge of Professor John Daniel, late of Johns Hopkins. This is a new feature in the history of the institution, and supplies what has long been pressing. Preparations are already being made to receive the delegates of the American Educational Association, which is to hold its next meeting in Nashville, early in July...
...interesting course of lectures has been successfully begun at Brown University The subject of the entire course is "Problems in City Government." Ex-Mayor Seth Low of Brooklyn, gave the opening lecture January 4. Professor Woodrow Wilson of Wesleyan gave the second on the evening of January 11. Professor Wheeler, of Yale, Prof. Hart, of Harvard, Profs. Chapin and Gardner, of Brown, and others are to follow, each discussing some particular phase of the question. The Glee and Banjo Clubs gave a very successful concert in Norwich, Conn., on Friday evening last. They are now making arrangements for an extended...
...good deal of work was done in the Catalogue department. The total number of titles catalogued for the year 1887-88) was 8,423, of which 6,711 were of books recently received and 1712 of books received before 1860, when the present card catalogue was begun. Besides this, 843 titles of books for the subsidiary libraries were catalogued twice-once for the College Library and once for the subsidiary libraries...