Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...incongruity: I wished to take out a volume of Sparks' "Life of Washington." The card catalogue states that there are three copies of this work. I was told that two copies are not allowed to be taken from the Library, and that the third is reserved. Why, in the name of common sense, is not one of the two copies which may not be taken out put on the reserved shelf, and the copy now there allowed to circulate? Certainly, it seems ridiculous that two out of three copies should be useless, and that the third should be reserved...
...name of W. G. Thompson, '88 was omitted from the list of men to whom commencement parts are assigned...
Will the writer of the forensic signed "Cujus" please leave his name at 40 Matthews. The subject: "Was the Expulsion of the Academicians Justifiable...
...Society has just been presented by the Hon. L. D. Gilfillan with an ancient work on Geography, in three volumes. The books, which are printed in Latin and bound in parchment, are entitled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlus Novus." It was printed in 1645 at Amsterdam, and bears the name of a famous geographer of that time, Joannes Bloev, as author. The "Atlas Hovus is full of maps, all beautifully colored by hand and frequently surrounded by emblematic devices, together with scenes in the country represented. The unknown regions of the world are populated by horrid monsters creatures...
...William Chauncy Langdon, D. D., Annual Reports of the Secretaries and Corresponding Members of the International Committee indicating the present condition of the work in all parts of the United States and Canada. Full statistical reports of the American Associations, including the College, Railroad, German, Colored and Indian Departments. Names of 700 general secretaries and other paid officers; members of International and State Committees; number and value of Association buildings; statistical summary of the whole field; list of Associations in foreign countries; and name and post-office address of every association in America...