Cantabrigia,
Harvardinum.

Admittatur in Collegium

Præses.

Which copy shall be retained by him, as an evidence of his membership. And no one shall be allowed to take possession of any chamber in the College, or receive the instruction of that Society, or be considered as a member thereof, until he has been admitted according to the form, prescribed in this law.

CHAP. V.

LAW IX. All the Undergraduates shall be clothed in coats of blue grey, or of dark blue, or of black. And no Student shall appear within the limits of the College or town of Cambridge in a coat of any other colour, unless he shall have on a night gown, or, in stormy or cold weather, an outside garment over his coat. Nor shall a surtout, or any outside garment of any other colour than a blue grey, or dark blue, or black, be substituted for the uniform coat. But the students are permitted to wear black gowns, in which they may appear on all public occasions. They shall not wear gold or silver lace, cord, or edging upon their hats, waistcoats, or any other part of their clothing. And whosoever shall violate any of these regulations, shall be fined a sum not less than eighty cents, nor more than one dollar and sixty cents, for each offence; and, if any one persist in such violation, he shall be subject to higher censures.

CHAP. VIII.

LAW XV. The Steward, at the close of every quarter, being notified by the President of the price of commons, as stated by the Corporation, shall, with the assistance of the committee appointed to adjust the cost of commons,* immediately fill up the columns of commons and sizings, and deliver the bill to the Tutor, who shall have been appointed by the President to make it up; and he, the said Tutor, shall immediately fill up the other columns, according to the direction of the President and Tutors; which being signed by the President, and the Tutor, who made it up, the said Tutor shall, without delay, enter the bill in the book of quarter bills, and then deliver it to the Steward, who shall immediately deliver, to each Scholar, his quarter bill; in which the Steward shall particularly specify what fines have been imposed on such Scholars, and for what reasons. Every Scholar is required, without delay, to discharge his quarterly dues; and lawful interest shall be paid, upon every bill, from the time it has been due three months, till it be discharged. And, if any Student shall neglect to pay the Steward, on or before the

*The Steward keeps an exact account of his purchases for commons during the quarter; and his accounts with the vouchers are examined at the end of the quarter by a Committee appointed by the Corporation; which Committee also ascertains the aggregate number of weeks the students have been in commons. The whole cost, being divided by this number, gives the net cost for each week. In this exact way is the price of commons settled from one quarter to another. It varies in some measure, as the price of provisions varies.

second day of every term, each quarter bill, due from him to the college, except the last which was made out, he shall not be permitted to occupy his chamber, join his Class, or continue at the College; and he shall be assessed a sum not less than twenty five cents, nor more than fifty, for each day after that time, till he shall produce a certificate to the President from the Steward, of his having made the required payment, and in the mean time he shall be subject to the common charges in the quarter bill.

A portion of the library bequeathed to the Society by its late President has been received, but it is thought best to await the arrival of the whole before making a detailed acknowledgment. The bequest to the library includes "all my books, all of my private library and the Greek and Maya Antiquities collected by me, and those now deposited in cases in Antiquarian Hall and the furniture previously loaned to the Society."

In the list of Givers and Gifts under members it will be noted that more than one-half have sent their own productions. Three of the larger works therefrom are volume V. of "The History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850" by James F. Rhodes, LL.D.; the exhaustive "History of Plymouth, New Hampshire" by the Hon. Ezra S. Stearns; and "War Government, Federal and State, 1861-1865" by Captain William B. Weeden. Prof. Allen C. Thomas has again transferred from his library to ours rare and important imprints of early date. Dr. Reuben G. Thwaites sent his report as chairman of the committee of the American Historical Association on"The Best Methods of Organization and Work on the Part of State and Local Historical Societies," in which he writes: "Of the National Societies engaged in the collection and publication of historical material-for obvious reasons the American Historical Association is not included in the report-easily the most important in library and resources is the American Antiquarian Society.'

To Mr. Phillips Barry we acknowledge his "Traditional Ballads of New England copied from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society." They were selected from several hundred quarto broadsides which were gathered and bound by our founder. Volume I. contains in ink

the following interesting entry: "Songs in three Vols. cost, binding included, 6 dols., Songs, Ballads, &c., In Three Volumes. Purchased from a Ballad Printer and Seller in Boston, 1813. Bound up for Preservation-to show what articles of this kind are in vogue with the vulgar at this time, 1814. N. B. Songs and common Ballads are not so well printed at this time as 70 years ago, in Boston. Presented to the Society by Isaiah Thomas, Aug", 1814."

Mr. Charles Currier Beale has kindly sent us the Proceedings of the New York State Stenographer's Association at its 30th annual meeting which contains his "Vacation of a Shorthand Antiquarian." As supplementing his notes on the same subject, in the librarian's report of April, 1902, the following is offered:

"We stopped at Worcester long enough to make a careful inspection of the excellent collection of valuable shorthand books in the American Antiquarian Society's Library. There they have the first shorthand book published in America, Sarjeant's edition of the famous Gurney system, published in Philadelphia in 1789, and also the first Pitmanic shorthand book published in this country, Stephen Pearl Andrews' Phonographie Class Book, Boston, 1844. They have many other works equally interesting to collectors and bibliographers, but to those not particularly interested in the study it would be tedious for me to go through the list. But I am sure all of you would have been interested to see the quaint old shorthand manuscripts there preserved, for they have the diary or "Dayly Observations" of Thomas Shepard, the younger, son of one of the first ministers of Massachusetts Bay Colony, written in 1630 and the following years: the diary of John Hull, the mintmaster and first treasurer of that colony, and of about the same date; and the note-book of Thomas Lechford, the first lawyer of New England, covering the years 1539-1641. All of these were written wholly or in part in shorthand. Truly it was almost wonderful to look at those quaint old stenographie manuscripts, written by those who for more than two centuries have been only names in history, almost forgotten even by the student and unheard of by everyone else, and to think that even in the beginnings of our great country the now almost despised art of shorthand was deemed worthy of being learned and used by the leading men of the day. For in those three time-stained books is the handiwork of representative men from the pulpit, the bar, and the government.”

We acknowledge to the Burrows Brothers Company, for service rendered, not only Avery's "History of the United States and its People," as issued, but several reproductions

in color of the rare historical engravings of Doolittle and Revere.

Mr. J. Chester Bushong, our photographer, having reproduced our cil portraits of Increase and Cotton Mather, has presented ecpies for our portfolio. The exhaustive History of Newburyport to 1905 inclusive has been placed in the local history alcove by the author, Hon. John J. Currier. Forty years ago Mr. Wendell Philips Garrison of "The Nation" accepted an invitation to preserve here a file of that periodical. It has come weekly without a break and has been of service to us and to our patrons. In the last issue of volume LXXXII. is the following:

VALEDICTION, June 28, 1906.

"The need of a prolonged rest after forty-one years of unrelaxed application in the service of the Nation, constrains me, from the present date to relinquish the editorial direction of this journal, with extreme reluctance and with far profounder feelings. I take a grateful leave of my readers and of my cherished and indispensable associates."

At the end of his admirable index he has added:

"The Eighty-second and last Index to The Nation (1865-1906) propared by the hand of W. P. G”

Mr. John E. Kimball, chairman of the Building Committee, has presented the "Souvenir of the Charles Larned Memorial and the Free Public Library of Oxford, Massachusetts 1906.” It is a happy ecincidence that the founder, Hon. Ira M. Barton, was for many years a member of the Council of this Society, and that the addresses at the dedication of the "Memorial" were made by two of our present Council. Hon. Carroll D. Wright and Mr. Samuel S. Green, and by your Ebrarian, the only surviving son of the founder.

Señor D. Gustavo Martinez Alomia of Campeche Las added to our Spanish American alcove his "Historiadores de Yucatan" in which he devotes a chapter to our late lamented President and Lis devoted labors in behalf of that most interesting country.

With the gift of Capt. Otis Winsor's "Log of the Bark Annie W. Weston" be sent a brief sketch of his life from a Duxbury sailor-boy of sixteen to retired ship-master of eighty years.