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...Nicholson, formerly of the London Institute, has been elected librarian of the Bodleian Library as a compromise candidate. The election is esteemed a high honor, and the salary of the office is pound5000 per annum...
...labor of the year was lightened somewhat by a season of festivity, occurring about the middle of the year, and lasting several days, called the Semmi-Anualls. The amusements, which were varied, remind one somewhat of a country fair of the present day. In the Bodleian is preserved a tattered and dingy pamphlet, in 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...
...appreciation of the "divine philosophy," or feeling within himself something responsive to the passion and the pathos of Euripedes "the human," then let his youthful ardor be fed with a list of the fifty manuscripts of the work in hand, which lie rotting on a dusty shelf of the Bodleian library; teach him the peculiarities of all the editions ever published; let him point out the errors in copying made by the drowsiest monk in the darkest age; let him learn to lay his finger with a feeling of proud superiority upon the four places in all his great author...