Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about 233,000 pamplets. Five thousand five hundred and six volumes beside the reserved books, were taken out or used in the library during the year, but in this enumeration, if the same volumes were used twice, it counted for two volumes. These figures show a part of any great library is used in a manner which figures can record' On the most favorable interpretation, not one book in four of the whole number in the library was used at all last year, except by persons having access to the shelves and using books in a manner incapable of record...
...Princeton, have also suffered in this way, but not nearly as much as Harvard has. It is only by the very hardest work that we can hope for any degree of success whatever. Captain Willard we are sure will do all he can but he is laboring under great disadvantages, having so much raw material and being without the incentive of a victorious nine behind him. If the nine is to make a step toward regaining its lost position, it must have the hearty, whole-souled support of the college. The men are willing to do their part...
...dormitories, the lighting of Gore Hall, plank sidewalks in the yard and an elevated railway to Boston, which the authorities can not furnish all at once on account of the lack of available funds, we must not lose sight of the fact, that in the great and complicated whole, the university is, to use a technical Greek phrase "just booming...
37Students will save money by having their furniture repaired and upholstered at my store during this and next week. Wishing to keep my workmen busy I make special figures which are a great reduction from regular prices. Call and see me personally. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston St., Read's Block...
...following are candidates for catcher's position: Henshaw, '88; Slade, '90; Bigelow, '90; and Campbell, L. S. Henshaw by his work last year, both as catcher and at the bat, placed himself in the front rank of college players. No Harvard player ever made as great a success in his first year as Henshaw did. Choate was catcher on his Freshman nine, and substitute on the University nine last year. He is a good backstop and a fair batter. The other three candidates...