Word: rare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined to the college yard, where it seems appropriate and pleasant. The old tricks upon property are now unheard of. Professors are no longer the natural enemy of the student. The old 'cane-rushes' and terrible foot...
...editors have been signally successful in enlivening such solid matter with humorous cuts in a lighter vein. Throughout these drawings are capital hits, well conceived and well executed, but none are so pathetic by half as the canal boat collision, which we are led to believe is no rare occurrence in "New Jersee." The series of the eating clubs are, perhaps, the best on the whole, and touch home to the heart, or elsewhere, of every college man who thinks twice of his dinner. The frontispiece of the new Marquand chapel presents to us a picture not inferior...
Copies of William Pynchon's book, which was burned in Boston, are very rare. There is a copy in the British museum and another in the Harvard college library, which was probably once owned by Elizur Holyoke. A Sheffield (Ct.) correspondent says that H. S. Sheldon of West Suffield has a copy bought at the Brimley library sale at New York some months since, and which is valued...
Numerous accessions of rare, valuable and costly works in science and history...
...presentation copy of Cantillon's very rare essay on the nature of commerce, [1755], presented to the library by H. S. Foxwell, professor of political economy in London University, and fellow of St. John's, Cambridge, with an accompanying note in which the donor explains how this copy, in connection with one other, came into his possession, and concludes with the words : "It occurred to me therefore that there might not be a copy at Harvard; and as the copy which I have is ultimately destined to find its way to the library of old Cambridge University, I thought...