Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR PALMER will read the sixth book of the Odyssey on the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving recess, and it will probably be the last of his series of readings this year...
...long cards should be restored to use, suppose a list of books received, but not yet catalogued, were kept on the delivery desk at all times. Then the two combined would form the first complete catalogue the Library has had. The titles should be written on the list in their shortest form, e. g. Macaulay's England. Against each title should be written (1) the date of the arrival of the package containing the particular book; then (2) the date when all the cards referring to that book were put into the drawers. This list should be written...
...admitted without leave. Now these "long cards" compose the only catalogue at all complete. The ordinary cards do not embrace the titles of twenty or thirty thousand old volumes, nor the accessions for the last six weeks (just now no accessions since August 20, and perhaps earlier). As each book costs the Library a dollar to catalogue, - according to a statement in the Boston Advertiser, which has never been denied, - it seems but fair that the persons for whom this expense is incurred should have free access to the best catalogue...
...anonymous books under such titles in the alphabetical catalogue as will give some idea of their contents. If one wants a book on chess, he would hardly think of turning to the word "easy," yet there is the book, because the title runs: "An Easy Introduction...
...long time there has been need of a handbook which should give to visitors information concerning the various College buildings and the objects of interest in Cambridge. The students, too, have felt the need of such a book, and it gives us pleasure to announce that Messrs. Moses King and Thomas P. Ivy, of the class of '81, will issue, about the first of January, "Harvard and its Surroundings," a book modelled after "Alden's Sixpenny Guide to Oxford." This book will contain about sixty pages of reading matter and fifty heliotypes and woodcuts, including views of all the College...