Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notice has been given in the Law School that all second and third year men who propose to become candidates for a degree must leave notice in writing to that effect with the librarian, designating the courses in which they intend to take the examinations...
Professor John Langdon Sibley, the veteran ex-librarian of Harvard, is seriously ill at his residence in Cambridge...
...college in the quality of Bedmaker and Sweeper. Having no child, his wife inherits his whole estate which he bequeathed to her by his last will and testament as follows :" The words of the song were published early in this century in pamphlet form by J. L. Sibley, librarian emeritus of the college, and then in 1825 were set to the tune of Yankee Doodle, published in music form, and "dedicated to the graduates of Harvard University...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: After the mid-years nearly all books reserved for English courses and Sophomore Rhetoric were taken from the alcove in the reading-room. Now I suggest that a selection of the best English and American authors be made by the librarian or other competent person, and that these books be placed in some alcove. Many students, having a half hour or more of leisure, would enjoy looking over such books, whereas now we have to go through a process of red tape often consuming ten minutes, at the end of which time we are liable...
...series of book, to be purchased when next any books are added to the library. As the students are most interested in the selection of their reading material there can be no objection to this plan. And if too many books were suggested in this way, of course the librarian would make what he considered the best selections from them; and as many books already in the library would probably be suggested through ignorance, the number of volumes proposed would be considerably reduced. The plan would be feasible only when books are to be purchased, and not in donations...