The Librarians of Harvard College 1667-1877Library of Harvard University, 1897 - 47 pages |
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A.M. in course Abbot Academy allow'd Amer Andrews Norton annual appointed April Astor Library AUTHORITIES biog borrow Books Boston Athenæum brary Byles Cambridge catalogue Cogswell College Library Comtee Corporation Cotton Daniel Gookin daughter of Rev death degree of A.M. Diary died Edward Holyoke Eliot England Ezra Abbot father Folsom Geneal Hancock Harris Harvard College History Holyoke Increase Mather Ipswich January John John Rand Joseph June Librarian Librarian of Harvard Library-keeper Lyndeborough married Marsh Mass Massachusetts Historical Society Memorial hist minister ministry N. E. hist Nathaniel Nathaniel Saltonstall Natick Norton November October ordained Overseers parish pastor Peabody Peirce person preached Presdt printed pulpit Quincy received records resigned rian salary Salem Saltonstall Samuel Samuel Sewall Scholar September sermon Sibley Stephen Sewall Stoddard Thacher Thomas tion town tutor volumes voted Watertown wife Willard Winsor ye Books ye College ye Library Keeper ye President
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Page 8 - Stately and slow, with thoughtful air, His black cap hiding his whitened hair, Walks the Judge of the great Assize, Samuel Sewall the good and wise.
Page 46 - No person shall lend, to any other, a book, which he has borrowed from the Library, nor let it go from under his personal custody, under the penalty of losing the privilege of borrowing, for a year.
Page 19 - Your library is reckond here to be ill managed, by the account I have of some that know it, you want seats to sett and read, and chains to your valluable books like our Bodleian library, or Sion College in London, you know their methods, wch are approved, but do not imitate them, you let your books be taken at pleasure home to Mens houses, and many are lost...
Page 47 - That a Fire be made in it one Day in a Month, from the last of October to the last of April, Vacation Times alwaies excepted. The Librarian or his Substitute shall constantly be present, while there is a Fire, & shall see it thoroughly extinguish'd by Day Light.
Page 43 - Library. first in the order as they are placed & disposed according to the affixed catalogue. Secondly, Jn one continued Alphabet setting down the Authors name & what of his works are in the Library & where. Thirdly The names of the severall Donors of y* Books with the Books given by them 9.
Page 45 - Seal handsomly engrav'd, with a Blank Space, to insert the Name of the Donor, shall be pasted in the beginning or End of Every Book.
Page 37 - October 29, 1822. The library is now in fine order. It is arranged on the same plan with that at Gottingen, though, for want ; of books, the subdivisions are much fewer at present, and the Catalogues are made out in the same way, so that all possible future additions will require no alteration in any part of the system. Cogswell, however, is in a state of mortal discontent. He is weary of the imperfect system of education at College, and bitterly vexed with the want of liberal views in the Corporation,...
Page 46 - If any undergraduate desires to borrow a book, which is lent out of the Library, he may leave his name and the title of the book with the Librarian, and when the book shall be returned, the Librarian shall reserve it for the person so applying ; provided he call for it at his next time of receiving books from the Library.
Page 15 - Oxford, college. and, as far as I could gather from some, who well knew the state of it, not far superior to our Universities in piety and true godliness. Tutors neglect to pray with, and examine the hearts of, their pupils. Discipline is at too low an ebb. Bad books are become fashionable amongst them. Tillotson and Clarke are read instead of Shepard and Stoddard, and such like evangelical writers...
Page 33 - He acted as Librarian until his death, 16 April, 1800. By his will he bequeathed nearly the whole of his property to the College, the income to "be sacredly appropriated to the purchase of such modern publications as the Corporation, Professors, and Tutors shall judge most proper to improve the students in polite literature ; the books to be deposited in the library of the University, and to consist of poetry and prose, but neither in Greek nor Latin.