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Prof. Palmer yesterday, stated to the members of Philosophy 4 that the volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica recently taken from the library had been returned, and that he had clearly demonstrated that no member of that course had been guilty of the theft thus removing the stigma that had been placed upon the students in that course...
Once more the meanness of a certain student in this university has been brought to notice in a most disagreeable manner. The eighth volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica containing the article on Ethics, was missing from the library for two or three days. Yesterday morning when the janitor opened the building, he found the book on the steps. The sneak who had taken it was not contented with merely preventing others from using it, but he went to the trouble of breaking the covers and tearing the binding...
...college libraries form such an important part of the work of their respective institutions, a glance at the relative size of the libraries of American colleges will not be amiss. The latest table of figures which is authoritative is taken from the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica dated 1881. Of course since that time some changes in the relative positions have taken place, but they are not many, and the list stands substantially correct to day as regards position. The growth of all American libraries has, however, been rapid during the last few years and large numbers of books...
Among the American contributors to the 17th volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, now in press, will be Profs. C. H. Hitchcock and J. K. Lord, of Dartmouth; Prof. W. D. Whitney of Yale, and Mr. E. L. Godkin, of the Nation...
...volume of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," it is claimed that there is a marked leaning toward science to the exclusion of divinity, belles letters and all other subjects...