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... cent . , and has been placed in a condition to continue to increase from year to year in proportion with the most desirable portions of the city . In explanation of the delay in presenting such an important matter near the close of the ...
... cent . , and has been placed in a condition to continue to increase from year to year in proportion with the most desirable portions of the city . In explanation of the delay in presenting such an important matter near the close of the ...
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... cent . of the population have obtained permission to borrow books ; in Boston , about 74 per cent . , which percentage has since largely increased . Thus , for the reasons just stated , a smaller proportion of residents borrow , on ...
... cent . of the population have obtained permission to borrow books ; in Boston , about 74 per cent . , which percentage has since largely increased . Thus , for the reasons just stated , a smaller proportion of residents borrow , on ...
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... cent . of the books it contains are works of English prose fiction , including " juveniles " ; and the circula- tion of these is three - quarters of the whole circulation of the Lower Hall . We thus have a library , containing in both ...
... cent . of the books it contains are works of English prose fiction , including " juveniles " ; and the circula- tion of these is three - quarters of the whole circulation of the Lower Hall . We thus have a library , containing in both ...
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... cent . more than it was in 1859 , while the losses were 300 per cent . more . old system was thus abandoned , because it was a demoral- izing system , - a system which encouraged theft more than it diffused enlightenment . Under the new ...
... cent . more than it was in 1859 , while the losses were 300 per cent . more . old system was thus abandoned , because it was a demoral- izing system , - a system which encouraged theft more than it diffused enlightenment . Under the new ...
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... cent . The use in August was 92 per cent . of that of July . In August there were 62 volumes taken home daily from the Bates Hall . The highest use of the Lower Hall in one day was Saturday , the 28th , when 646 issues were made ...
... cent . The use in August was 92 per cent . of that of July . In August there were 62 volumes taken home daily from the Bates Hall . The highest use of the Lower Hall in one day was Saturday , the 28th , when 646 issues were made ...
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100 A parcel avenue Back Bay Beacon street bounded as follows bridge building Castle street cent channel Chapman street Charles River City of Boston committee commonwealth containing eight hundred containing nine hundred containing one thousand containing seven hundred containing six hundred described as taken dollars Dover street East Boston eastwardly Edward Tuckerman Eliot street Emerald street filling flats foot formerly belonging formerly of George formerly of Henry formerly of James formerly of John formerly of Mary formerly of William heirs of Edward Indiana place land belonging legislature less loan Lucas street measuring twenty feet Middlesex street Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park Sarah SHATTUCK side South Boston Southeast southeastwardly southwest square feet Suffolk street tidal basins Tremont street trustees twenty and feet wardly by land Washington street West Boston bridge westwardly by land wharf