Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Please note by the inclosed clipping [June1] that the wife of the President was riding in New England, in Rhode Island to be explicit, at the rate of from 55 to 65 miles an hour. According to the 1929 Automobile Green Book, Rhode Island speed law is as follows...
...writers is debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...
...eagerness of book levers to secure everything with any pretence of literary form written in Elizabethan or Stuart times, carries its lesson to a library which expects to be a workshop for students of literature in the long future Harvard is now in a position to anticipate future demands more confidently, by a steady building up of its collection of contemporary poetry Mr. Morris Gray, '77, made this possible by the gift in the early spring of $12,000, of which $2,000 was for immediate use in supplying publications of the recent past, so that the income...
Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten novels by equally un known authors, who were none the less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale...
...often that the library has occasion to start a wholly new classification, but this has been made possible this year by a gift of several hundred finely printed books, made by philip Hofer, '21. The library has for at least two decades had an active interest in modern printing, of which the Charles Eliot Norton library contained a number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor...