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... volumes were covered with paper during the year ; and on these there must be copied on the back , at the lowest computation , over a hundred thousand figures , an error in any one of which would cause possible confusion . Again , in ...
... volumes were covered with paper during the year ; and on these there must be copied on the back , at the lowest computation , over a hundred thousand figures , an error in any one of which would cause possible confusion . Again , in ...
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... 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 ; the lowest in any other day was 342 . The daily average of issues for the preceding eleven ...
... 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 ; the lowest in any other day was 342 . The daily average of issues for the preceding eleven ...
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... volume on " Free Libraries . " He says the phrase is strictly applicable to it , regarded as a lending collection ... volumes , comprising mainly the plain Lower Hall style of binding , and periodicals bound according to pattern have ...
... volume on " Free Libraries . " He says the phrase is strictly applicable to it , regarded as a lending collection ... volumes , comprising mainly the plain Lower Hall style of binding , and periodicals bound according to pattern have ...
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... volume is delivered and the writing on the slip verified by the applicant's card , the same slip is preserved as our record of delivery . There was some apprehension that illegible writing would produce mistakes ; but this difficulty ...
... volume is delivered and the writing on the slip verified by the applicant's card , the same slip is preserved as our record of delivery . There was some apprehension that illegible writing would produce mistakes ; but this difficulty ...
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... volumes were thus issued at the Manches- ter branches , while 1,700,000 readers are computed to have visited the six reading rooms attached to the branches . These branches possess from 2,000 to 12,000 volumes each . At Berlin something ...
... volumes were thus issued at the Manches- ter branches , while 1,700,000 readers are computed to have visited the six reading rooms attached to the branches . These branches possess from 2,000 to 12,000 volumes each . At Berlin something ...
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100 A parcel 25 feet 50 feet avenue Back Bay Beacon street bounded as follows bridge building Castle street cent channel 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 Lucas street measuring twenty feet Middlesex street Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park Sarah SHATTUCK side South Boston Southeast 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