Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GALE.Those members of the Harvard Glee Club who have not favored the club with their presence on sundry and various occasions for a short time past are reminded that it has been decided to give a concert in Sanders Theatre shortly. They are also reminded that with this end in view there will be a rehearsal this evening. It should be borne in mind by all that the rehearsal is to begin at half-past seven...
Periodicals come under the first word of the titles. Society publications have the society as author's name. Some books, as various editions of the Bible, and the Greek and Latin authors, are not in the author catalogue, but are grouped together in the subject catalogue. Subject catalogue is also alphabetical. The idea is that every book be put under its most special head, and the specific heads be grouped under the larger main heads. There are 400 main headings in the subject catalogue. It was then shown how to make any special research by means of the subject catalogue...
...passages that fairly dance with vividness. When one learns, as I happened to to-day, that the writer was not on the boat at all, one must the more admire the imagination that could give such a lively picture of the trip. The gathering of the various cliques is very humorously described and evidences much observation...
...readers probably know, Prof. Laughing has recently published a new book on Political Economy in Appleton's Science Text-Books Series. The author has divided his work into two parts, the first treating of political economy proper; the second applying the principles of the science to the various questions of the day. We have long felt that some such book was needed. Neither Faucet nor Walker possesses the elements of a good textbook. Except to the most devoted, Mill becomes tedious through his many details, besides being antiquated in several points. For the students of Political Economy I, therefore, Prof...
Yale was peculiarly fortunate last year in the number and variety of the various lecture courses that were given outside of the regular curriculum. Some of these were organized by different associations of the students themselves, while others were given by different alumni. One of these, the Dw ght Hall lecture course, has already reorganized for this year, and its first lecture, was given last Monday by Mr. George W. Cable, who spoke very entertainingly on "Cobwebs in the Church." The most of the lecturers who follow in this course have not yet been made public, but it is expected...