Word: list
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...long cards should be restored to use, suppose a list of books received, but not yet catalogued, were kept on the delivery desk at all times. Then the two combined would form the first complete catalogue the Library has had. The titles should be written on the list in their shortest form, e. g. Macaulay's England. Against each title should be written (1) the date of the arrival of the package containing the particular book; then (2) the date when all the cards referring to that book were put into the drawers. This list should be written...
...such tickets were issued, to hold good for two weeks, they would be eagerly bought at Christmas also. It is a pity that something of this sort is not done. The main question probably would be, Who is to do it? Let our public-spirited correspondent start a list at Whiton's or Sever's, and we are confident he will find his fellow-travellers enough awake to their own interest to register their names in sufficient numbers ??? to obtain a considerable reduction of prices...
...interest of each section is to be secured only by allowing to that section a representation in the list of class officers. It is not necessary that such representation should be in proportion to the numbers of the section, but it is absolutely necessary that there should be some representation. Nor is it always necessary that the men selected should be apportioned equally among the different sections. Above section, some men belong to the class. Such is notably the case this year. By their success at the oar and bat, the captains of the crew and nine have brought honor...
...father, actuated by marvellous paternal affection, - and by the same intuitive wisdom that induced him to insist on my taking hard electives during my college course, has booked my name on the list of the respectable and cultivated people that compose the Woodruff Scientific Expedition, and has come to the sagacious conclusion that a tour round the world will do me as much good as the degree I lost last June...
...hanging on the walls of Lower Massachusetts during an examination. By the payment of a trifling fee, any one obtains the right to the use of the prominent Boston and New York dailies and of the large number of other newspapers and magazines of which we have given a list. We hope that enough persons will respond to the appeal of the directors to enable them to use the room in the evening and get the additional papers of which they stand in need...