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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work on the new library building is now progressing rapidly. When completed it will undoubtedly be the largest and best equipped library building of any university in this country...
This year the Co-operative Society has very much improved its furniture department by keeping a competent furniture clerk in Boston to attend to all their furniture customers. Now a student who wishes furniture may go to the Boston office, 87 Union street, and be taken to the largest wholesalers, from whose stock he may choose directly. In this way the Co-operative is able to offer to its customers the greatest variety of goods at extremely low prices...
...Fine Arts and Alchaeology will soon be arranged and classified on the shelves. Six hundred volumes of bornd newspapers have been removed from Perkins Hall and placed on the Fenton roller shelves in the basement of the new stack. Owing to a necessary change of investment of the largest book fund, which had for a long time paid seven per cent there will probably be a serious reduction of income for the purchase of books the coming year...
...collection of photographic plates at this observatory is the largest in the country, the glass alone weighing ten tons. With these improved methods more variable stars are found here than at any other place...
...colored puppets stuck on their straw hats. Leading the Freshman class came three fellows on small donkeys, hired at the last minute near where the parade formed. Behing them some dozen fellows carried crimson umbrellas, lettered in white to spell "Harvard '99" and "46-96." The Freshmen had the largest representation in the parade of the four classes and were very enthusiastic...