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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the past year both the Harvard and Yale libraries have been used more extensively than ever before. From September 1, 1888, to August 31, 1889, there were 69,892 volumes taken from Gore hall alone. This does not include those taken out for one night only. During the same time 10,21 volumes were taken from the Yale university library. The Yale News contains the following summary of the way in which these volumes were distributed...
...impossible to compile a similar summary of the volumes taken from the Harvard library as no such records are kept. The greatest number of books taken in any one month from the Harvard library in this period was in March, when 6,124 volumes were drawn out. The greatest number was drawn out of the Yale library in February, when 1367 volumes were taken out; during the same month, 5332 volumes were drawn out from Gore hall...
...present the total number of books in the Harvard library is 268,551. There should be added to this number nearly 100,000 volumes which are in the twenty-one subsidiary libraries. Yale has a library of more than 140,000 volumes. Both libraries contain many thousand unbound pamphlets and works...
...songs of the people. In fact these are their history. The "Nibelungen Leid" and "Gotterdammerung," the principal poems are based on popular songs. The "Nibelungen" contains thirty-eight adventures corresponding to cantos, arranged in 2000 stanzes or verses. Each verse is divided into two parts, the second part being one accent longer than the first...
...acquainted with Knowlton L. Ames of Chicago, Illinois, now a student at Princeton college, and that he played ball with said Ames in the summer of 1889, and that during said summer said Ames has to his personal knowledge received money for his service for ball playing; on one occasion the money for his services in a game between the "West Ends" and the "Whitings," (both of the Chicago City League), being paid to him, said Ames, directly by said Buckley; on another occasion said Buckley saw a member of the Joliet, Illinois, nine deliver money to said Ames...