Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...behalf of the Harvard Memorial Society, I wish to call the attention of all Harvard men to the disgraceful act committed last Wednesday night, in the theft of the "Louisburg Cross," from the Library, and to ask them to assist in its recovery. The old cross was one of the most valued possessions of the University and its loss is irreparable, save through the return of the cross itself...
...old Louisburg Cross which has been preserved for a long time in the University Library and which for nearly twenty years has stood over the entrance, was on last Wednesday night broken off and stolen...
...Louisburg, brought it back with them. Where it was obtained, or just how it was disposed of at first, is not known. It came into the possession of the University, however, a long time ago, and when the Library was erected, it was set in the wall of the old transept. on the side where the stack was subsequently built, and there was an inscription with it, telling the few facts of its history...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets $20,000 and Tufts College $10,000 by the will of Thomas O. P. Burnham, the Boston second-hand bookseller, who had a bookstall for so many years under the Old South Church. On the outside, at least, his bookstall was a most unpretentious affair, out of which it seemed possible that a thrifty person might get a modest living; but Mr. Burnham found more in it than that, for his estate exceeded $600,000,- all left for charitable or for public uses...
...Annual football game next Saturday (October 19, 1895), on Soldiers Field, Cambridge, at 3.30 p. m. Ask for tickets in Section G, which has been reserved for Brown men. Pass the word along to every Brown graduate, and ask him to attend prepared to yell for Old Brown, and so cheer on her boys in their efforts to put Brown to the front in athletics...