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...future generations, as complete a record a possible f the present daily life of the University. It was pointed out that such a record, made in 170 or 1800, would be of great interest now. Accordingly, Mr. William C. lane, Librarian of the University, has issued a circular letter, a copy of which has been sent to each officer of the University, asking his co-operation in carrying out such a plan...
...will include an extract from "The Rape of the Lock," and one from Pope's "Iliad"; Addison's "The Citizen's Journal," and "The Vision of Mirza"; Swift's account of the Struldbrugs, from "Gulliver's Travels"; Gay's fable, "The Hare and Many Friends"; and, a letter of Lady Mary...
...United States Fish Commission has recently received a second letter from Dr. Agassiz, dated Nov. 6, 1899, which further describes his cruise in the Albatross. The work has been largely of the same character as before, but more attention has been paid to the construction and nature of the coral islands of the Paumotu, Gloucester, and Fiji Groups. This includes a study of the growth of the different islands into groups, and the animal life in the lagoons as compared with that outside in the ocean. He has thus been able to test the statements made by other explorers. Only...
...Agassiz's next letter will describe the work of the expedition in the Society Islands...
...afternoon Professor C. E. Norton, Mr. F. Holland Day, and Mr. Joseph Prince Loud, examined the pictures which are to be exhibited, and awarded honorable mentions as follows: To H. L. Blackwell, for picture entitled "Yellowstone Falls"; to Julian Burroughs sC., for "Portrait of J. T. Trowbridge," "An Old Letter," and "A Strange Water Fowl"; to W. P. Cohoe 2G., for "On the Charles"; to A. M. Dame '02, for "A Hospital Ward"; to H. W. Eliot, Jr., '02, for "Sunset in Gloucester Harbor"; to C. F. Stiles sC., for "Sunset," and "Mount Kearsarge"; to Professor de Sumichrast, for "Slow...