Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Guild, librarian of Brown University, is engaged in making a complete card catalogue of the library. It will be arranged by topics. The library now has about 55,000 volumes, besides 17,000 unbound pamphlets...
...officers of St. Paul's Society for the next half year are as follows: President, E. S. Rousmaniere, '83; vice-president, W. Amory Gardner, '84; secretary, H. B. Coxe, '85; treasurer, Malcom Storer, '85; librarian, H. Trail, '84; chorister, P. H. Goepp, '84. The executive committee consists of the above named officers and R. Codman, L. S., Hamlin, '83, Jewett, '84, Krumbhaar, '85, and Gardner...
...Washburn. Professors Parsons and Washburn then had charge of the Law School. Among the professors of the present day whose names appear in this catalogue are O. W. Holmes, Asa Gray, J. R. Lowell, and Professors Bowen, Lovering, Child, Torrey, Eustis, Sophocles, Lane and Cooke. Mr. Sibley was then librarian, with Ezra Abbott as assistant. Louis Agassiz was professor of zoology...
...management. Unlike most institutions of its kind the fact that it is large does not make it so full of red tape that it is impossible to feel at home in it. As far as is possible the individual wishes of each student are consulted by the librarian and his assistants, so that every student has almost all the advantages of a private library without its burdens. There is no department of the university more worthy of the assistance of both students and outsiders...
...many symptoms of imbecility often shown by the authorities of some colleges, none has ever struck the writer as so indicative of narrow-mindedness and intellectual cowardice as the recent action of the Bowdoin College faculty, which ordered the librarian to drop the North American Review from the list of periodicals taken by the college library, because the managers of that monthly see fit to continue to publish Col. Ingersoll's articles, and have, it is said, refused to grant to Mr. Jere Black space for more answers. The last number containing a paper from Col. Ingersoll, thought...