Word: specials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...special Christmas service will be held in the college chapel on Thursday evening, December 23. The college term ends on Saturday, but it is the feeling of the preachers to the University that the large number of students spending their holidays in Cambridge should not be neglected. Hence in order that a little of the Christmas feeling may be shared by the students who are unable to be at home, this special service has been arranged. Dr. F. G. Peabody will conduct the service...
...vacations is fixed, not by the faculty, but by the board of overseers. The faculty, therefore, have no right to wink at extensions of the recesses on the part of the students. At the meeting of the faculty, December 18, after listening to the report of a committee appointed specially to investigate this question, the matter of protracted vacations was discussed, and it was unanimously agreed that the length of recesses, as settled by the overseers, must be observed by the students. Just how this will be accomplished was not decided. It is probable, however, that in future such "infringements...
Freshmen, special students and upper-classmen admitted to advanced standing this year, may procure copies of the Regulations in University 2, ground floor, this afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock...
...increase in numbers during the past two years has been 231, of whom 120 were added this year. All the departments except the Art School showed a marked increase. One of the most encouraging signs is the large number of our own graduates who are pursuing their professional or special courses here rather than at other universities...
...circulation of the University library during the past year has been somewhat less than ten thousand volumes. This is exclusive of the special departmental libraries of the graduate schools and also of the Linonia and Brothers which has a circulation somewhat in excess of the University library. This is to be accounted for chiefly by the fact that this library contains works in general literature while the University library is limited to works of a heavier character. One rather surprising fact is that the scientific department withdraws only about 5 p. c. of the total circulation. The showing...