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...department of "University Notes," which in this number contains "Harvard Necrology," by John Langdon Sibley, a catalogue of Cartographs and Scientific Notes is introduced in the April Bulletin. Mr. Sibley states that : "Graduates and class secretaries are requested to send to the writer class reports, both new and old, and all newspapers which contain obituaries and other notices of Harvardians. It is important to have the places of birth and death, and in addition to the year, to have the month and day of the month...
John Langdon Sibley, the venerable librarian emeritus, is now, in his seventy-fifth year, at work on the third volume of his "Harvard Graduates." If any one deserves the encouragement and the gratitude of Harvard men, it is Mr. Sibley, who, after publishing the two preceding volumes of this work without deriving returns sufficient to pay the actual cost of printing, is undertaking the third volume. These biographical sketches are the result of nearly fifty years devoted service in the interests of the university...
...their shoulders. They looked poverty-stricken: their hats, with rims torn off or turned in, bore the figures '63 in front; their apparel being such as is suited to the tearing football fight, and their left legs having crape on them. "The procession moved on," says John Langdon Sibley, "in perfect order to the Delta, and halted under the trees towards the upper end, where a circle was formed, and the coffin passed around for the friends to take a last look at the contents, - simply a football, with painted frill fastened to the head of the coffin." The elegist...
...JOHN LANGDON SIBLEY, who for forty years has edited the Triennial Catalogue, is now engaged in preparing the Quinquennial for 1880, and all who are interested in having their names correctly printed, with all their honors, or who can make corrections respecting any of the graduates, or furnish information of deaths, ought to report immediately...
...PORTRAIT of John Langdon Sibley, Librarian Emeritus, painted by Vinton for the trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy, is on exhibition this week at the gallery of Doll & Richards...