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...giving a fancy-dress ball, and she decided that the invitations should go out bearing the latest thing-postage stamps. The year was 1847, and stamps had just been authorized for the Indian Ocean colony of Mauritius, which her husband administered. So she asked that old, half-blind Mr. Barnard, the island's watchmaker, jeweler and amateur engraver, finish the island's first stamps as soon as possible...
...small copper plate such as might be used to engrave a visiting card, Mr. Barnard cut a pretty profile of the young Queen Victoria, but instead of engraving "Post Paid" along one edge of the stamp,* he made it "Post Office...
Today only 26 stamps are known to exist of that first issue of 500 bearing Mr. Barnard's inconsequential slip, which made a philatelic byword out of the phrase "Post Office Mauritius." The one-and twopenny samples that were up for auction last week by the London firm of Robson Lowe, Ltd. had left Mauritius on a letter to a wine merchant in Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only...
Columbia's women's division, like Harvard's, has taken the lead in liberalizing social rules. Men have been allowed to visit Barnard College girls, also on alternate Sundays, for three years...
Radcliffe is one of the last of the "seven sister" colleges to raise its tuition rates. Vassar, Barnard, Smith, Bryn Mawr, and Mt. Holyoke began the trend this year by increasing charges $250 to $300 each. Like Radcliffe, Wellesley will wait until 1964-'65 for a $300 rise. Radcliffe will remain the most expensive of the seven schools by over...