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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...days ago we expatiated with pardonable pride upon the influence which our editorials of last year exerted upon the Board of Overseers in leading them to adopt English as the language of the Quin-quennial Catalogue instead of the semi-barbarous Latin which has been used heretofore. For a year, we inferred, the overseers had been screwing their courage to the sticking point, and it has at last stuck. But now. alas, comes the surprising intelligence that their recent resolution has been changed, the catalogue is to be printed in the language which for many years has puzzled our forefathers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1885 | See Source »

...meeting of the board of overseers yesterday, the recent vote of the board, recommending that the quin quennial catalogue be printed in English was re-considered and a motion to have it printed in English was lost by a vote of nine to seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS. | 2/6/1885 | See Source »

...work on the quin-quennial catalogue will be done this year by Mr. Tillinghast of the library, as Mr. Sibley is incapacitated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/26/1885 | See Source »

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