Word: bounding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...library is using as an autograph book for the names of distinguished visitors a handsomely bound volume which was sent over from England in 1765 by Thomas Hollis, a liberal benefactor of the University in the eighteenth century. On the first page he wrote this inscription: "This book was bound long since to serve a noble purpose. It may still serve some noble purpose in Cambridge in New England." For over a hundred and thirty-five years the volume has remained in the library unused, but henceforth it is to be kept for the signatures of visitors. The first signatures...
...whole people believe in the unification of Germany. We believe in a great union of federated states, bound together by a common language, by common currency, courts of justice, and unrestricted mutual trade. Such is the venerable American Union; such the young German Empire...
...exceptional merit. In general the form of the speakers was passably good, though there were individual instances of awkward gesturing and clumsy postures. The whole discussion turned on the question of the possibility of enforcing the excise law. By the affirmative it was maintained that Major Low was bound to enforce these laws legally and morally and by every consideration of expedience. That while there were certain dead laws on the statutes which could be ignored, the excise laws commanded immediate enforcement and that non-enforcement meant a return to Tammany rule. The case of the negative rested...
...Revolutionary Sources," by Henry Bingham, Jr., 2G., an instructor in the History department. It contains five letters, the originals of which are in the Library, written by William Weeks, a paymaster in the Revolutionary forces, describing the conditions of the American army during the Revolution. The book is handsomely bound and is printed in old fashioned type...
Other acquisitions are, "A General History of the Philippines," by Juan de la Concepcion, a work in fourteen volumes curiously bound and printed in 1790 at the Convent of our Lady of Loretto; and an album containing the portraits of students who attended the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts. The Album is interesting as almost all the portraits are of men who later became famous either as scholars or statesmen...