Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...amiss to pass a bit of friendly criticism on the value of the so-called "Class Lives." Class after class has maintained the custom of having (or trying to have) every member write his "life" on sheets of abnormally large paper, which are intended to be bound with a manuscript copy of Oration, Poem, etc. in a "Class-Book"; records of all Class-Meetings are to be made in this volume; the unfortunate Class Secretary is expected to know the whereabouts of Tom, Dick, and Harry, their occupation and most private concerns, which are to be entered from time...
...PAMPHLET, edited by Samuel A. Green, M. D., has lately been published, entitled "A Copy of the Laws of Harvard College, 1655," which gives some interesting facts regarding the government of the College, and some very curious rules relating to the dress and deportment of the students. The original manuscript was given in 1683 to Jonathan Mitchell, Freshman, it being customary at that time for Freshmen, on their entrance, to possess themselves of manuscript copies of the laws, as it is now to provide them with "Bibles"; and these manuscripts, on account of the scarcity of paper, were wont...
...Great American Traveller has requested us to state that he is engaged on another great work, "The Prattville Criterion," - "five hundred feet of manuscript...
...precious stones. The handsomest books in the collection are two reprints of old books full of monkish illustrations of the Florentine school, the one a translation of the Imitation of a Kempis, the other the Livre d'Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagny. There is also a beautiful manuscript of the XVth Century that is a copy of the works of Thomas Aquinas. There are two books (one a volume of Allatius) which belonged to Louis XIV., and which have on their bindings the crowned L and the Fleur-de-lys. Another book has the crowned...