Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...library has two copies of the most valuable and important book ever written on fishing, the first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler." Copies of this first edition, which at the time of publication sold for 18 pence were worth $60 in 1847 and in 1889 their value has risen to $225. The high-wate mark was reached in 1907, however, when one of these first editions sold for $6,450. The library also contains a Flemish work published in 1492, which is the earliest known treatise on fishing. the original manuscript of the English translation, together with...
...library is especially rich in illustrated book on all the different phases of fishing, including even whaling. The collection is the most complete in the world in English, French, Danish, Dutch German Italian, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish official documents on fishing. It also contains practically all the official documents ever published by the United Sates on the subject...
...collection of all available data relative to the European war, started a year ago by the University library, has already grown to be a considerable one. It contains more than 1,000 books and documents, not including the many foreign newspapers which the library is filing and a collection now being formed in Germany for the University. The object is not to collect a huge mass of useless publications, but to gather together a representative and authoritative assembly of documents that may some day be historically valuable in determining the causes and course of the war. The literature...
...instruction, the university during these 10 years has increased its scholarship endowed $86,300 and its fellowship endowed $428,000; while the annual budget of the library, has increased for $14,560 to $18,600. During this period gifts of money to the library for the purchase of book have amounted...
...talk is all right," or "it's nobody's business." Collegiate life in general can bear improving. In a university, if anywhere, ideas should creep into the conversation. And the value of talking, when mind meets mind in frank communion and keen interplay, can be compared favorably to text-book study. The undergraduate could learn more of the satisfaction one feels when he can truly say, as Dr. Johnson said (and Stevenson quoted), "Sir, we had a good talk...