During the Exeat “Library” was somewhat altered. Doves were put up at the foot of the staircase in Ashburnham house. The old masters’ Common Room was fitted up with cases to hold the school Collection of Coins, this room has been added to the Library. The present buteroom is to be made into a chess…
This term we are glad to see a reform had been undertaken in Library: the shelves have been dusted etc: and glass fitted to the doors, so that “Library” will no longer be a disgrace to the school.
It has been Liddell’s intention for some time to have a Public Library formed, like most of the other public Schools, and in consequence of his having a certain sum of money, about 50£, in hand, which he had saved from the yearly subscription of his own house, towards their house library, he very profoundly…
A Library of useful and entertaining books was set on foot by Williamson a little before Xmas it was begun by voluntary subscription, and is intended to be kept up by a regular charge of one guinea upon every new comer in every boarding house, whether it will eventually prove any use, is at best…