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...SALE. -Johnson's Family Atlas of the World, half morroco and gilt, entirely new. Price $15. Apply to No. 16 College House...
...SALE.-Johnson's Family Atlas of the World, half morroco and gilt, entirely new. Price $15. Apply to No. 16 College House...
...would scarcely notice that unpretentious blue flag with gilt border which falls gracefully from one of the supports, and on which is the brief inscription: "Harvard vs. Yale, Lake Quinsigamond, 1866." But it is the emblem of one of the first, prettiest, and most decisive races that Harvard ever rowed. Decisive from the fact that the Harvard stroke which had been in vogue some time among the class crews, was for the first time to be tested by the university boat. The first Harvard-Yale race was to have taken place in '58, but owing to the death of Yale...
...among the colleges and contains over 60,000 volumes besides many rare manuscripts. New College belies its name, as it was founded in 1586 and besides the usual amount of plate and relics has the crozier of its founder William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, wonderfully wrought in silver gilt and studded with jewels and probably the finest relic of its kind in the world. Lincoln and St. John Colleges are smaller than the average and of but little interest with the exception that the former contains a manuscript copy of the Wycliffe bible and was the Alma Mater...
...heliotype album now on exhibition at Pach's is 10x12 in size, bound in half morocco and marked with gilt letters, "Harvard, '83." It contains specimens of the the pictures, four on a page, with face simile autographs beneath...