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...official opening of Houghton Library, recently completed annex to Widener which will be able to house 250,000 of the most valuable books and manuscripts in the University collection, has been set for Saturday evening, February 28, announced Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the entire University Library...
Germany forced Roumania to continue the war in Russia by threatening to take what was left of Transylvania or even to annex the country entirely...
Muralist Refregier gets $26,000 for a set of murals to be painted for the walls of a long L-shaped lobby in San Francisco's new Rincon Annex Post Office. His winning designs, chosen in an anonymous competition from among 82 sets of entries, illustrate the history of San Francisco from the Spanish conquest to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. Laid out in 27 dramatic panels, they show Grecoesque padres and armored discoverers, gaunt Indians paddling their canoes on California rivers, horny handed fortyniners grubbing for gold, sharpfeatured industrial workers building the engineering monuments...
...purpose in going to Widener. You seem to be the exceptional Harvard man, the long sought after demi-concentrator, the superman of the library who can keep one eye on the book and the other on the passing scenery. For your type of intellect it might be well to annex Widener to the Old Howard and have built-in chorus girls...
...week's special at Harvard's Widener annex features another cut from the same old carcass--a saloon saga, no less, but without the equine and bovine props, without Dictrich, without even Sex, unless Gable bussing Turner during 30 long clinches demonstrates Love. To us it shows endurance,--on the audience's part. Besides, there is only one brief glimpse of Lana's limbs, and strangely enough, while all the other corny cliches are there, you won't find La Lana perching on the pianner as the boys in the background croon "Who Poured the Beer in Paddy's Coffin...