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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MORE than four hundred new German books have been received this week at the College Library, and so rapidly is the number of books there increasing that enough shelves to hold two thousand volumes are soon to be added...
ADELINA PATTI recently sang in the Huguenots, at the Grand Opera in Paris. Nearly eight thousand dollars were cleared, and we have particular reason to be thankful for the success, as the whole sum is to be devoted to the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine...
...thousand, 't is said, was paid for the choir...
Then, too, themes and forensics are very good things, but, as they are marked at present, their imposition is simply a bore, with few good results. Three hundred marks are given for six themes on a scale of seven thousand five hundred; so that a falling off of twenty-five per cent in the excellence of all one's themes would reduce one's general average only one per cent. It is scarcely to be expected that a student should devote fifteen hours to writing and rewriting a theme, when twelve hours' less application would make a difference...
AMONG the most recent additions to the College Library are between two and three hundred volumes, the gift of Dr. Green, of Groton. A thousand German books are expected this week...