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...language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands of persons can express thought in Latin and millions can use quotational tags of it, but only...
...thousand, four hundred volumes and 6,700 pamphlets were added to the Yale library last year. The largest contribution ever made to the library was a recent bequest of $15,000 from Mrs. Azariah Eldridge...
...train the experts who in more and more fields now rule the world, is now again giving to universities greatly enlarged functions, new problems, and almost a new meaning to the very word 'university.' That this new situation will be duly appreciated by a fair proportion of the one thousand millionaires in our land, and by legislators as well as by those who have set their hearts and minds upon the progress of true science in our great and beloved republic in this time of unprecedented educational opportunity, I have not for a moment a shadow of doubt...
...accommodations. The Library is now filled to its utmost capacity and, in fact, it has not room enough for all the books which properly belong within its walls. In order to make room for new books it has been found necessary to box up and remove about fifteen thousand of the oldest and least used books. It is supposed that this will give room for about a year's accession of new books and pamphlets, but, at the end of the year, the operation will have to repeated, and at that time books of a greater usefulness will have...
...been announced by the following Harvard members. Professor Lanman; An incident in the life of the illustrius Chinese Buddhist monk, Fa-hien. Professor Lyon; The recently discovered tablet of Raman-nirari. Mr. F. D. Chester; Ibrahim al-Mausuli: coincident traditions in the Kitab al-Agani, At-Tabari, and the Thousand and One Nights. Professor Toy; Foreign words in the Koran...