Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rush of these modern days few things in the world are more ephemeral than the productions of our periodical press. Nothing is staler than yesterday's newspaper, -- if you have today's; and even in so staid and decorous an organization as the book club of any highly respectable New England town, the dignified Reviews and seemly humourous publications that make their prim march from house to house excite in most members of the club, would they own the truth, but very languid interest when at the earliest they arrive at least six weeks after the time of their first...
...text is taken from the First Book of Samuel, 17th Chapter, 55th Verse: "When Saul saw David go forth against the Phillistines he said to Abner, the Captain of the Army: Abner, whose son is this? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, O, King, I cannot tell...
When his will was read, it transpired that he had left his valuable book collection to Harvard. This included four folios of Shakespere, first editions of the "Fairie Queene," of Ben Jonson's works, of "Robinson Crusoe," of Gulliver's Travels," "The Vicar of Wakefield," the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," and many other works almost as famous. There were first editions and presentation copies of Dickens, Thackeray, Browning, Tennyson, and Stevenson, and numerous other manuscripts from the same period of English literature. In the short term of his life, Harry Elkins Widener had in this collection acquired...
...cornerstone will contain a parchment bearing the inscription copies of the College publications of the day--the Lampoon, Monthly, Illustrated, Advocate, the 1916 Red Book, this morning's CRIMSON, pictures of Gore Hall, the old library, copies of the various official University publications, and a copy of "College Life" by Dean Briggs...
...wish to usher at the baseball game with Yale to be played on Soldiers Field June 18 should sign in the blue-book at Leavitt A Peirce's immediately. The book will be closed, and no more names received, after 6 o'clock on Saturday; the complete list of ushers will appear in Monday's CRIMSON...