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After considerable discussion a committee was appointed to consider a plan for raising funds for the Beecher memorial and report at the next meeting, which will be called at an early date by the chair...
...double number of the "Library Journal," bearing the date January and February, will be very valuable for future reference because of the tables it contains concerning the libraries of the United States. The statistics are taken in the first instance from advanced sheets of the forthcoming report of the bureau of education, and an addition is made of the names of the librarians and a classification of the libraries according to size. The government list comprises all libraries having 300 volumes or over, and contains 5,338. The "Library Journal," however, only reprints the information concerning those...
...chess tournament between Princeton, Columbia, Yale and Harvard is to be held at the Manhattan Chess Club rooms in New York some time this spring; the date has not yet been decided on definitely...
...word is classic to a greater or less degree, and yet after all it seems as if a short one-syllabled name that we can think of supplies the place of Pennsylvania very well. Of course, if the Keystone State, including Philadelphia, should really want us at this late date to step down and out, of course, just for friendship's sake, we might be persuaded to leave the lately formed quadrangular league and make way for the league which sounds better...
...Harvard was originally founded as a college to train ministers of the gospel; now the college has broadened into a university, while the Divinity School is merely an important factor, but no more. The same is true with the older institutions. and it is only at a comparatively recent date that institutions of learning are founded and endowed in the true sense of a university