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Pliny records (Nat. Hist. Lib. vii. -xxvii) a similar instance. A more detailed account of such a phenomenon is given in a curious tract in the Bodleian [Bodl. Pamph. Godw. 87. (4)] which bears the following title: Prodlgium Willingkamense: Or, authentic Memoirs in the Life of a Boy, Born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741; who, before he was Three Years old, was Three Feet, Eight inches high And had the Marks of Puberty. With some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius and Knowledge. By T. Dawkes, Surgeon. London...
...representatives of the Bodleian Library and four other libraries at Oxford arrived in Cambridge this morning to spend three days at Harvard as the guests of President Lowell and the Masters of Lowell and Dunster Houses, it was announced yesterday. Their purpose is to inspect the University Library and gather information which they will need in drawing up the plans of a new library at Oxford...
...three-fold purpose. It will, in the first place, provide a central hall for the annual dinners which are given in accordance with Cecil Rhodes will. A library with shelf space for 60,000 volumes will also be installed in the building to relieve the congestion in Bodleian Library. Finally, Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering place for former Rhodes' Scholars returning in after years...
...practical contribution to the University, a library room is to be provided for the relief of congestion in the Bodleian Library. The additional space will not only take care of the Bodleian over flow, but will be used to supplement the present collection with books published in America and the Dominions. The new library will be distinctively a library of the literature of the British Commonwealth and the United States. The special Parkin Library, in memory of the late Sir George Parkin, will form a part of this collection...
Following the example of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Widener Library will publish from time to time, with the cooperation of a committee of undergraduates of the John Barnard Associates, a list of the Library's desiderata in contemporary poetry. This innovation comes as a result of the inability of the Library authorities, working by themselves, satisfactorily to keep up the collection of modern poetry...