Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following have been elected officers of the St. Paul's Society: President, W. Amory Gardner, '84; vice-president, J. Hayes Gardiner, '85; secretary, H. B. Coxe, '85; treasurer, Malcolm Storer, '85; chorister, Crosby C. Whitman, '86; librarian, Edward C. Hamlin '86. The services of this society are held daily at 5.45 P. M., except on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Wednesdays the hour of service has been changed from...
...many places in this volume names have been cut out, and in these instances a note at the top tells us of the day of the mutilation, and states that the name thus lost is known to the librarian. After losing a number of names in this way, and after having left his own autograph on as many pages, the librarian adopted the ingenious method of tearing out the page on which an illustrious visitor had left his marks, and of restoring the leaves after the rage for autographs had departed from the breasts of the kleptomaniacs. Thus we find...
Perhaps the second volume, which begins in 1864 and ends in 1871, contains the greatest number of famous names. It opens with the signatures of the librarian and his assistants. In 1864 Richard H. Dana, Jerome Bonaparte, and the world-renowned Daniel Pratt, the Great American Traveller, S. T. 1860 X. all visited the college within a month of one another. It seems that the invincible Daniel has been a great traveller since 1864, without having succeeded in getting beyond Cambridge. Succeeding Daniel comes W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. U. S. Army, 1866. Wendell Phillips, fresh from his anti-slavery...
...students of the Law School are now allowed to bring ink into the library, provided it is in the patent safety stands, which have been approved by the librarian...
...librarian of Harvard University indexed 208 volumes of periodicals for the recent edition of "Poole's Index...