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...will be issued, and it is desirable that notices of the death of, and also of any honors which have been conferred on, graduates may be promptly forwarded to Mr. John Langdon Sibley, No. 9 Phillips Place, Cambridge, accompanied by answers to the questions to be found in the Triennial Catalogue, and if obituaries have been published, to send the newspapers containing them. It is also suggested to class secretaries to forward their reports as soon as published...
...have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record which few men certainly would not desire to have expunged from the Triennial Catalogue. It is a never-ceasing source of wonder what could have actuated the Faculty to disgrace the fair name of the College by giving President Grant a degree. Perhaps they expected that the Administration would return the compliment, and make one of our Professors a Brevet Brigadier-General...
AMONG the recent additions to the Library is the Life of Admiral Coddington, the gift of Lady Bourchier of London. Through the kindness of Mr. Samuel Phillips (1819), an old and exceedingly interesting Triennial has been sent to the Library; this is a "broadside," and a fine copy...
...account of our early lives will be of great interest, and the genealogies may supply many a break made by the loss of the "family tree" or "family Bible," in its passage from hand to hand. Nor is the use of our autobiographies limited to our own race; the Triennial Catalogue, Lives of Harvard Graduates, and other publications must draw their matter largely from these pages. Sometimes a false modesty may deter a man from answering the questions asked him, but this is quite unreasonable; none of the questions are strictly personal in their nature, but inquire about facts known...
...SIBLEY has the "Triennial" well under way, and any serviceable information is earnestly desired. This is the twelfth Triennial that has come out under Mr. Sibley's supervision. From it has grown his interesting work on Harvard Graduates, - a book to be prized by every good Harvard man, and to be kept in mind just at this time, when so much book-buying is going...