Word: first
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...long cards should be restored to use, suppose a list of books received, but not yet catalogued, were kept on the delivery desk at all times. Then the two combined would form the first complete catalogue the Library has had. The titles should be written on the list in their shortest form, e. g. Macaulay's England. Against each title should be written (1) the date of the arrival of the package containing the particular book; then (2) the date when all the cards referring to that book were put into the drawers. This list should be written...
...reference cards should all have the alcove and shelf marks of the books. It is a little hard to be referred to two or three different cards for the want of four or five figures in the margin of the first...
...first Yale kept the ball well toward their opponents' goal-line, and at one time nearly succeeded in kicking a goal from the field. Before the first half of the game was over, however, they were forced back, and Atkinson, by a brilliant rush, obtained a touch-down for Harvard and a goal was kicked by De Windt. No further advantage was gained by either side...
...visitors information concerning the various College buildings and the objects of interest in Cambridge. The students, too, have felt the need of such a book, and it gives us pleasure to announce that Messrs. Moses King and Thomas P. Ivy, of the class of '81, will issue, about the first of January, "Harvard and its Surroundings," a book modelled after "Alden's Sixpenny Guide to Oxford." This book will contain about sixty pages of reading matter and fifty heliotypes and woodcuts, including views of all the College buildings, those in Boston and Jamaica Plain as well as those in Cambridge...
...first column of Monthly Musings is aptly headed "The Muse." It consists in selections from Byron and Shelley. There are also Musings on Aristotle, and on Campbell's poetry; also, there is an article entitled "A Summer Reverie," consisting of judicious clippings from Wordsworth. After this, it is needless to say that native genius is not called much into requisition, as far as poetry goes...