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...further subscriptions have been received by the treasurer towards the fund for retiring allowances, and also towards the permanent observatory fund; besides other minor matters of interest. The overseers have been agitated by the question of the restriction of "drunkenness upon the campus at commencement." Under "University Notes," Librarian Sibley's Harvard Necrology is continued, various correction and additions up to date being included in the correct list. The death of Edward Oakes, a graduate of the class of 1679, is now first recorded. The most noted name among Harvard's dead is that of Josiah Quincy, '21. The usual...
...number concludes with University Notes, including, 1 - Librarian Sibley's Harvard Necrology, and 2 - Notes in Geology and Lithology, by Dr. Wadsworth...
...imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three rousing cheers for Tom Hammersmith! Three cheers more for Mark Sibley Severance, chronicler! Yes, and three more for 'Fair Harvard!' 'May they live long and prosper!'" Well done, Rip Van Winkle...
...Hoar and Emory Washburn. Professors Parsons and Washburn then had charge of the Law School. Among the professors of the present day whose names appear in this catalogue are O. W. Holmes, Asa Gray, J. R. Lowell, and Professors Bowen, Lovering, Child, Torrey, Eustis, Sophocles, Lane and Cooke. Mr. Sibley was then librarian, with Ezra Abbott as assistant. Louis Agassiz was professor of zoology...
...university by Mrs. Fiske's father; the residue of her gift is to be devoted to the maintenance and care of the university library, which already ranks third in size and importance among the university libraries of this country. Gifts have also been made by Henry W. Sage, Hiram Sibley and a modest benefactor, whose name has not been made public, for the improvement of the botanical, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and architecture departments. New apparatus, instruments and models for the departments of physics and civil engineering to the amount of $25,000 have been purchased in Europe within...