Word: books
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...topic of Professor Morize's lecture this morning at ten in Harvard 6, offers the Vagabond an occasion to become a little more familiar with this outstanding figure in French literature. Although Rabelais' work is of such permanent significance as to be a standard, the present activity of book censors and other public officials makes Professor Morize's subject very timely and of special interest even to those to whom French literature itself makes no appeal...
Students are reminded that applications for tickets to the Michigan game close today. The discount coupons which are found in the back of the H. A. A. book must be handed in before 6 o'clock in order to secure reduction in prices...
...status of affairs is clearly shown when it is explained that the condemnation of just one judge is sufficient to put any book on the banned list, which now contains 759 items. A government customs official, after looking through Rousseau's "Confessions," admitted that he saw nothing bad in them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio...
Perhaps the most beautiful of the volumes being shown is the "Story of King Arthur and the Round Table", printed by William Copland in 1557. There is only one other complete copy of this book in existence; and that rests now in the British Museum. Printed first in ordinary black and white, the front page of each copy of the work was then illuminated in brilliant colors by hand...
...edited the Review two years ago, has written an article on "Reaching the Interest of the Beneficiary of the Spend-thrift Trust" while Professors Frankfurter and Sandis have joined in an essay on "The Business of the Supreme Court in the October term, 1928". These men have written a book called "Business of the Supreme Court", to which the essay adds further information...