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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which appeared in a late number of the Advocate, to make confession of a creed which I hold with others. I make no attempt to reply to that article, because the writer, against whom it was particularly directed, has already answered it; and, indeed, the statement might seem to contain fit replies in themselves. My purpose is only to confess myself a believer in sentiment, and to give a few reasons for clinging to something which has at least the approval of some former times, and which, I had thought, was beginning to prevail in our own. Indeed...
...Gray collection has recently purchased the engraving stand in the Library, given it to the Scientific School, and presented us with a new one. The new stand will hold thirty leaves, each leaf half as large again as the old ones. It will thus be able to contain the larger engravings, which will not require to be sewed in. Though the whole number of leaves will not be mounted immediately, the engravings will probably be changed once a month...
...work is to contain heliotypes of every building connected with the College proper and of its various departments, several interiors, representations of the College at different periods in its growth, society-rooms, - provided the consent of the societies can be obtained, - and other objects of interest to the graduate or undergraduate. In addition to these there will be heliotypes of a few of the former Presidents, and of all the Professors at present in the University, making the number of illustrations about one hundred and twenty, varying two or three more or less. Accompanying the heliotypes of the Professors, which...
...BOOK on Athletic Sports, of three or four hundred pages, is soon to be published at McGill University, Canada, and will find its way here about the middle of March. It is to contain a chapter on Boating, with articles from Oxford and Cambridge. Yale, also, will probably supply some information, and a letter has been received by the President of the Boat Club here asking for a contribution to the chapter from Harvard...
...Alexander Agassiz. He had made large collections of eggs for the purpose of examining the embryological growth of birds. It was his intention during the present winter to publish a text-book for the use of the undergraduates who take Natural History as an elective; this book was to contain simply a description of animals, leaving the student to draw his own inferences from their organization. He had, withal, contemplated writing a work which should show the affinities existing between the various animals of natural history...