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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I was not born a grumbler, but I am in a fair way to become one. I am not very much more sensitive to a lack of comfort than my fellow beings, but I have endured, during the past two months, such great discomfort, that I must trespass upon your space a little to air my grievances. Imprimis. I take Pol. Econ. IV which recites in Massachusetts. I believe you have published a previous complaint about the absence of shades on the windows in that building, and I wish to reiterate...
...Sibley was born in 1804, at Union, Maine. He fitted for college at Phillips Academy, entering in 1819, at the early age of 15. Upon his graduation from the academy he entered Harvard, and was graduated with the class of '25. During his college course he received the appointment of assistant librarian, and performed the duties of the position until 1856, when he was appointed librarian. In this position he served, with some slight interruptions, until 1877, when failing eyesight compelled his retirement. His valuable services were appreciated by the college, and in recognition of them the title of Librarian...
...that the excitement of the '86 class elections has passed off, we would breath a gentle suggestion into the ears of the newly born photographic committee. Last year the graduating class of Smith College decided to have a composite photograph of the class taken, - and taken it was. Perhaps some of our readers may not understand what a composite photograph is, - we would not insinuate that the able committee do not, - so a few words of explanation may not be out of order. The Scientific American has lately been publishing some articles on this interesting subject, which run somewhat...
...also of the newly discovered wisdom of the present. Twenty-five or fifty years ago when History or Political Economy were but accessories to an intellectual development which owed nothing to them, the average college professor and the newly packeted, stamped, and delivered A. B. felt a high-born disdain for a study like History. To them a study which had occupied no place in their education was of but small value in the education of others. Today the verdant youth who has not learned better finds that his delay has cost him a seat on the crowded benches...
...Buckingham, Ph. D., of Newton, died at his residence last Friday, May 29th. Mr. Buckingham was born in Boston in December, 1829, was educated at the Boston Latin School under the instruction of Epes S. Dixwell, and graduated at Harvard College in 1857. He was a man of wide attainments in literary and classical lore. At the time of his decease he was and had been for several years a teacher in the English High School in Boston, in the department of French literature. He was also a prominent member of the visiting committee of our college on languages...