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...Harvard Necrology for 1878-79 presents some very interesting facts. The unwearied devotion of Mr. Sibley has been rewarded by the discovery of particulars concerning the death of many of the older graduates. Among these are Samuel Cobbett of Lynn, class of 1663, who died at Fairfield, Conn., 1713; Pascal Nelson, class of 1721, died at London, Eng., 1760; William Phipps of Cambridge, class of 1728, died at Pemaquid, Me., 1750 - 51; Samuel Moffatt, class of 1758, died at Demarara, 1780. The Necrology contains the names of seventy-five Academic graduates, fifty-eight of whom have died since last Commencement...
Next year the Quinquennial Catalogue will be issued, and it is desirable that notices of the death of, and also of any honors which have been conferred on, graduates may be promptly forwarded to Mr. John Langdon Sibley, No. 9 Phillips Place, Cambridge, accompanied by answers to the questions to be found in the Triennial Catalogue, and if obituaries have been published, to send the newspapers containing them. It is also suggested to class secretaries to forward their reports as soon as published...
...though most of the recent Alumni had been attracted to the ball-game; and the exercises were undisturbed by any noisy demonstrations, or by any attempts on the part of the Sophomores to obtain a share of the "equal feast." At the close of the dinner, Professor John Langdon Sibley was conducted to the head of the table to lead the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, after which Dr. Samuel Eliot, the President of the Alumni Association, arose and spoke as follows...
...difficulty of such an undertaking becomes apparent when we remember that the articles in the first seventy-seven volumes were published anonymously, and that it was owing entirely to the diligence of Mr. Cutter, Mr. Sibley, and Mr. Bowen, that the volumes in our Library alone contain a list of the writers who appeared in the early pages of the Review...
This rapid and systematic growth of the Library to the position of third in America is owing undoubtedly to Mr. Sibley's conscientious, untiring efforts: he has done a good work, and has his reward, if in nothing else, in the high esteem and veneration of his fellow...