Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about 240,000 volumes and about 233,000 pamplets. Five thousand five hundred and six volumes beside the reserved books, were taken out or used in the library during the year, but in this enumeration, if the same volumes were used twice, it counted for two volumes. These figures show a part of any great library is used in a manner which figures can record' On the most favorable interpretation, not one book in four of the whole number in the library was used at all last year, except by persons having access to the shelves and using books...
...following figures show the income available for the departments dependent upon the college proper, and the expenditures in those departments: Interest on funds for university salaries and expenses, $28,234.11; college expenses, $2,933.39; library, $6,999.64; college salaries, $30,234,27; college term bills, $194,307.03; sundry cash receipts, $22,451.60; total...
...that he has certain absolute qualifications for the degree he applies for. That Princeton should make this new departure is rather a surprise, but now that she has concentrated the attention of the American college world upon herself we do not doubt that she will make strenuous efforts to show up the new plan in its best aspect...
...article should be read by all who have any desire to express themselves on the History of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Wright should be congratulated in producing something that is of worth to the student, when so much nowadays is apt to contain no data, only reflections. In showing how sincere and earnest the Knights are, an attitude of ardor and benevolence is created by Mr. Wright, but the details of the strike on the Missouri Pacific last spring, as told by Professor Taussig, show only too clearly the difference between theoretical and practical labor movements. Professor Taussig...
...Waft of Summer" follows, which, though a good idea, fails to show itself on account of the words used. We cannot conceive of the wind "loitering" in "snow dust" that is "sculpturisque and fine...