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...meeting and submitted their plan to their fellows, who were unanimous in their approval. But as some of the upper-classmen took the matter in hand the freshmen yielded the field and the seniors and juniors started the new journal, which was called the "Harvardiana." The first number, of octavo size with a blue cover engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer a very remarkable array of talent: "The frank and high-spirited son of the South, the cool and indefatigable Northerner, the poet with tremulous nerves and flashing...
...Literature. He said that in spite of the fact that a very large number of the Assyrian writings had been lost, a great mass still exists. An idea of its quantity can be had from the fact that an index to the existing literature, published in Munich, was an octavo volume of four hundred pages...
Prof. Laughlin has just given a very valuable contribution to economic literature in the shape of an octavo volume on bimetallism...
President Eliot's annual report, in which are included the reports of the deans of the college and of the professional schools, was published yesterday. The report is a most comprehensive one, covering, together with the report of the treasurer of the university, over 200 octavo pages. Owing to the limited space at the disposal of the CRIMSON, it will be impossible to do more than glance at the main points of the pamphlet. The first few pages are devoted to sketches of the three prominent professors whom the university lost by death last year,- Professor Sophocles, Professor Ellis...
...week the three-hundredth anniversary of its foundation. The invitations sent to the leading universities of the world were generally responded to by representative literary and scientific men. In view of the event, the Principal of the university, Sir Alexander Grant, prepared a history of the foundation in two octavo volumes. From this work the following details as to the origin of the university are taken...