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...evening of November 14, Mr. William Iyins, Print Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York City, will lecture at the Dunster House Bookshop, on the subject of "Woodcuts." The talk is intended primarily for members of the Fine Arts courses, and it is to them that invitations will be sent...
...purpose of the Dunster House Bookshop in offering this lecture is to make a step towards giving members of the University an opportunity to hear prominent men talk on such subjects as are not usually touched on by lecturers coming to Cambridge,--on subjects about which data and information are slim...
...Bookshop intends that its lectures, although perhaps not of general interest, will by their variety, in the course of time meet the particular interests of a great many people. In short, they aim to satisfy the individual hobbies of different small groups...
Although the first lecture will be for invited guests, in the future all those who have a desire to attend any particular talk need only apply at the Bookshop and their names will be placed on the invitation list...
...bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged him one day to go to the neighboring town of Uttoxeter to tend his bookstall. The boy refused from pride. The man, half a century afterward...