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...principal addition is Mr. Agassiz's gift of the Davis and McConathy collection of palaeozoic corals. The Davis collection contains more than eight thousand lots and includes many remarkably fine specimens. The chief addition to the exhibition collections is a series of Japanese siliceous sponges for the Pacific room. The installation of the Bangs collection of mammals, containing about 10,000 specimens, chiefly from North America, is now complete, and the old museum collection has been incorporated with it in a separate room. The collection includes a large and valuable series of South American mammals which have been received from...
...Hall. The chief features of the change are two large rooms in which have been placed two libraries of the department, one of which is made available for the first time and the other of which is entirely new. The first of these is a library of over four thousand text books and works of reference from schools of all grades. They have been given to the department by various publishers throughout the country, and comprise nearly all modern school books in use in the United States. The library will constantly be kept up to date by new donations...
...methods of its predecessors, but against the system which has been handed down to it. Not the system as published, but the system as practised--a system under which one man is given the responsibility of distributing outside of and at the same time with the regular distribution, several thousand tickets according to his discretion. These tickets are given out in all parts of the field; the position depending upon the strength of the applicant's claim. Is it surprising that under the stress of such a responsibility the management finds itself unable to distribute the other tickets according...
...between the musical spirit of Germany and France in comparison with that of our own country is that music, and in fact all the arts, play a far larger part in the daily life of the people than with us. There is hardly a town in Germany of twenty thousand or more inhabitants which does not have an opera house with a local troupe giving continual performances. If a German could not go to the opera two or three times a week, he would feel that he was losing one of the greatest enjoyments in life. It is a well...
...thousand torches will be given out in front of Grays Hall at 2 o'clock this afternoon for the parade tonight. There will be a nominal charge to cover the mere cost. These torches may be had by all members of the University until the supply is exhausted...