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ECONOMICS 1.- Synopsis of Mill's Principles of Political Economy, revised to date. This book of about one hundred pages contains the main working principles of the larger text-books of over one thousand pages...
Great surprise is being manifested over the recent decision of the town counsel to tax the university property. It is not clearly seen by many what legal grounds the assessors have to make Yale pay taxes for every dormitory yielding a revenue of over six thousand dollars, and for gymnasiums and other buildings yielding a like revenue. The university has always been exempt from taxation, and the intention of the town counsel to make an innovation in this line will doubtless meet with serious opposition from the university...
...Horticultural. Hall, near Tremont Temple, in Boston, for the night of November 3. A special wire will be run from the Associated Press to the hall, and a full bulletin of the election returns will be posted until late at night. The capacity of the hall is over a thousand, and its proximity to Newspaper Row makes it one of the most desirable locations in the city for the receiving of the returns...
...valuable gift has just been made to the University Library. Mr. J. M. Sears of the class of '77, has secured the library of the great German scholar, Ernst Curtius, consisting of three thousand volumes and has presented it to the university. It is the greatest collection of archeaological researches recently sold in Germany and will be a most valuable addition to the library...
...been taken down and others substituted in their places. Those which have been on exhibition are now placed in the cabinets with the remainder of the collection, where they may still be seen by those desiring to make a study of such subjects. The collection now numbers about fifteen thousand, and it is intended, for the sake of variety, to change those on exhibition each year...