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...Library is said to have been brought from Louisburg at the time of its surrender to Sir William Pepperel and the Massachusetts troops, in 1745. This date is said to have been painted on it, with a further inscription, when it was preserved formerly among other relics in Harvard Hall; but, after the removal of the library from that building in 1841, these relics were transferred to a building in which the Panorama of Athens was exhibited, and, in a fire in which that building was consumed, the inscription on the cross was obliterated...
...meeting of the Board of Directors of Memorial Hall, on Wednesday evening, the resignation of Mr. G. W. Williams, one of the Directors from '82, was read and accepted. It was voted to rescind the rule which provides that allowance for temporary absence shall only be given for whole weeks beginning on Thursday morning, and that in future allowance shall be granted for every whole week of absence, on whatever day of the week that absence begins. The Board meets again next Monday evening...
...reported that the Professors' retiring-rooms in Sever Hall will be heated by steam, and will also be supplied with open fireplaces and "other appurtenances of comfort and enjoyment...
...SEVER HALL will be 177 feet in length by 57 in width and 80 in height. The third floor is to be partly devoted to an art department, consisting of a lecture-room capable of seating three hundred persons, and two large art galleries for statuary and pictures. The seats will be so arranged in the recitation-rooms that the light from the windows will fall over the left shoulders of the students. The contract specifies that the building will be finished by April...
...first of Professor Paine's annual recitals was given last Friday evening in Boylston Hall. Before beginning his programme, he spoke briefly of the origin and development of instrumental music and of the Sonate form in particular giving the reasons for the number and sequence of the movements as well as the order of their component parts. His programme consisted of Bach's Italian Concerto in F major; Sonate Pathetique and Sonate op. 109 by Beethoven; Impromptu in G b major and Nocturne in E major by Chopin; and the Hunting Chorus from Mendelssohn's Songs without Words. The programme...