Word: bookes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, taken from the collection of Charles Sumner...
...those whose special interest is first editions, the Treasure Room contains the first "Paradise Lost" of Milton and the signature of Milton himself in a book "belonging to a Swiss gentleman...
Discount coupons for tickets to the West Point and Dartmouth games, which are found in the back of the H. A. A. book, must be handed in before 6 o'clock October 2 in order to secure the reduction in prices available to all members of the H. A. A. Students are advised not to wait until the last minute rush to secure their seats...
Announcement was made yesterday at the first meeting of a French course that one of the basic books of the course, a French text of Rabelais, could not be imported into this country according to a recent interpretation of the law by the customs authorities. To gather sufficient volumes for the students enrolled in this course, the Harvard Co-operative Society was forced to scour book marts of the country for copies that had already been imported...
...School, who introduced the "case" system into American legal teaching. After graduating from the Harvard Law School Dean Langdell went into practice in New York City. In 1870 President Eliot, remembering the work he had done as an undergraduate with Professor Parsons, in aiding that teacher to complete his book on Contracts, brought Langdell back to Harvard as Dean of the Law School and Dane Professor of Law, positions which he held until...