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This letter is to report an incident which happened in this town not long ago of a woman whose telephone rang at three o'clock in the morning. She fell down stairs and broke her leg. Another member of the family answered the telephone and was informed that the party had the wrong number. This woman did not thank the telephone operator...
...dumb bells or Indian clubs in the whole building, but in their place we shall have swimming, wrestling, boxing, fencing, basketball, indoor tennis and other competitive games which are far more stimulating and character-building to the boy and to the instructor than the methods used twenty years ago...
Expressed in figures which everyone can undersand, the year's record of the Library gives these facts. The income from funds which have been given for the purchase of books is not nearly $65,000 annually, this year's income being about $10,000 more than two years ago, as a result of recent large gifts. This annual income is what the Library can count on regularly, for book buying. In addition to this, the experience of recent years justifies the expectation that special gifts for immediate use will provide from $15,000 to $20,000, the average...
...paid out for books will exceed $480,000. Needless to say, nearly all of this comes from exceptionally large gifts from loyal friends of Harvard. This impressive amount needs to be considered, however, in connection with another that is equally impressive, which was announced by President Lowell a year ago in June, 1928, Harvard received from the family of William Augustus White, '63, a collection of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays, which were appraised at $435,000. In other words, the money value of the College Library has increased in the past twelve months more than a million...
...that an acquaintance with Italian literature is an essential back ground to a full appreciation of that of Britain. This has long been recognized as one of the subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when an opportunity to secure a very large Italian collection had to be declined because the necessary money could not be secured. This loss has now bee mitigated to some extent through the rapid growth of the Italian collection in the library, made possible by the establishment by Mrs. Nash...