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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SIXTY-THREE years ago, before a single American writer had an established reputation, William Tudor founded the "North American Review." During its first years the Review, notwithstanding the fact that it gave nothing for its contributions, barely paid expenses; and never before the present year has it been a paying investment. But, however unsuccessful from a business point of view the Review may have been, its pages have ever exhibited the highest scholarship this country possessed, and its list of contributors includes the name of almost every American writer who has attained any enduring distinction...
...have contributed more than fifty articles are Presidents Felton and Sparks, A. H. Everett, and W. B. O. Peabody. Caleb Cushing, William Tudor, and J. G. Palfrey stand among the thirties; and Professors Norton and Lowell, and W. H. Prescott, among the twenties. Of the members of the present Faculty, H. W. Torrey has seven; John Fiske and Asa Gray, six each; A. S. Hill and C. F. Dunbar five each; H. C. Lodge and F. H. Hedge two each; and J. B. Greenough, J. P. Cooke, Jr., and N. S. Shaler, one each. Among the other contributors are Bancroft...
AFTER the mongrel day which '77 endured last year, and in view of recent sinister criticism of the "new regime," it behooves the present Senior class practically to demonstrate next June that its class spirit has not been destroyed by the elective system, and that it is willing to unite all its forces in getting up a joyous Class...
...part, and already the Librarian is considering certain plans for the comfort and profit of students using the Library. It is proposed to enlarge the reading-room, to give students free access to more books, and to open the Library in the evening. Though these changes are at present only contemplated, they are of such obvious advantage that they doubtless will be carried out as soon as circumstances will allow...
...space now given to the reading-room is small, noisy, and poorly lighted. In its place we shall have the whole of the old hall, including the alcoves; and this will be lighted from above as well as from larger windows at the ends. The present noise will cease when the workmen are withdrawn; and we shall then have a roomy, quiet reading-room, where work will no longer be at the risk of blindness...